Personally, I don’t care that Fenway Park is 100 years old.
I’ve never been there, and I don’t feel a particular urge to. Clearly the LBS staff (not to mention the
sports community generally) will differ with me on this. Major sports outlets
at the moment are filled with stories praising the glory of standing in a
place which was once home to Ted Williams and Babe Ruth, where the strength of
generations of baseball history brings an inescapable communion with those who
have gone before which immeasurably enhances the baseball experience. This article, published on Yahoo, is an
almost too perfect example of this kind of adulatory journalism, as it extols the
virtues of Fenway from the perspective of someone who has never even been there. I have also never been to Fenway, but
for me that provokes not a driving urge to go there, but the feeling that I
should not judge what I have never sampled.
It could be a nice place, but probably not much nicer than other
ballparks. So what’s all the hype?
