What’s with the Red Seat at Fenway Park?
Visible among the mass of green seats out in the bleachers of Fenway Park sits one bright red seat. This ruby anomaly—Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21—commemorates the longest home run ever measured within Fenway Park, struck June 9, 1946 by the Boston Red Sox’s legendary Splendid Splinter, Ted Williams. The round-tripper, smacked off the Detroit Tigers’ Fred Hutchinson—without the help of steroids, incidentally—traveled 502 feet and bounced off the head of fan Joseph A. Boucher (legend says the ball went straight through Boucher’s straw hat). 7. Who’s that Statue of? Cy Young: This monument to the ace pitcher (a) that all aces are compared against (the annual award for baseball’s best pitchers bears his name, after all) can be found on the Northeastern University campus (access via Forsyth Street), on the spot once occupied by the pitcher’s mound at the old Huntington Avenue Grounds. It’s there that Young starred for the Boston Americans (later the Red Sox) in the 1903 World Series. Kevin
