Watching the Yanks open the season in Boston this year, I’m struck by how great Fenway Park continues to look on television. It’s just the best backdrop in the game for great telecasts. On Sunday, ESPN did a terrific job of showcasing the old park and its historic quirks. It’s amazing to me that old as it is – and cramped as it can be – Fenway Park remains the toast of Boston, a venue cherished by the general populace, the politicos, and the Red Sox organization.
Yet as the Yanks traveled to Boston, the consensus palace of the game was enduring its last destructive moments in the Bronx, as Turner Construction tore at the last remnants of Yankee Stadium. We’ve talked about is here before, but the callous destruction of the House That Ruth Built is a preservation crime of huge proportions – an act that everyone involved will come to regret.
But watching the games in Boston, I was struck by another thought: would the city of Boston ever allow such a fate to befall Fenway Park? Wouldn’t there be riots and acts of civil disobedience? You simply can’t picture it happened. Yet New York tore down Yankee Stadium. It’s still a shocking thought for an April evening, a year after the $1.5 billion replacement opened across the street.
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