Fenway Park Notes

The Red Sox have made a pitch to Major League baseball to host the 2012 All-Star game in order to celebrate the stadium's 100th birthday. Currently, Fenway is both the smallest and oldest park in the Majors, and one of the few stadiums in any sport that has that old-school charm and intensity night in and night out. Fenway hosted the All-Star game back in 1999, and usually the game only comes around every 30 or so years.

Also, the Red Sox are adding another 560 seats in our little Boston ballpark. This is the 8th straight year Fenway has been engrossed in offseason construction - every year since Henry, Warner, and Lucchino took over the team. At least some of the seats will be in the upper deck beyond first base. Other improvements are also planned, including waterproofing the lower deck and fixing the roof down the third baseline.