Today, I walked over to Fenway Park today and took the tour.  Although I have been to Fenway many times,  I never knew they had a tour until last week when we met some tourists from Germany who told us all about it.  It was actually pretty interesting.  We got to go to the visiting team locker room, the top of the green monster and the press box. 

Fenway Park is the oldest professional sports venue in the U.S.  It opened in 1912 (more than 100 years ago) and beat Wrigley field by two years. By the way,  Fenway is a ballpark, not a stadium although I can't remember the difference - but out guide was adamant about it.

The locker room was much smaller than expected - there are 47 lockers, even though the team can only have 25 players on it.  I guess the rest are for coaches and bat boys / bat girls. 

The seats on the Green Monster are the most desirable in the ballpark and are sold through a lottery.  This week, the dreaded Yankees are in town and it's the last time that Derek Jeeter will ever play in Boston.  As a result of an event pricing strategy, the Monster seats are going for $4000.00.

Here's the view from on top of the wall looking down the third base foul line (that's the foul pole on the right).

The Fenway press box is the second largest in MLB with 101 seats.  Yankee Stadium has 102!!  Although there is room for a lot of people, space for each reporter/broadcaster is pretty small.

Here are some views from the press box.

Lastly, we went out to the bleachers in right field to see where the longest homerun was ever hit in Fenway when Ted Williams hit a 502 foot blast and conked a guy on the head.  The fact that he hit a guy and ruined his straw hat is how they are sure exactly where the ball landed.