Fenway Park

This guide to Fenway Park traces the ballpark back to General Charles Taylor and his son John, Boston Globe publishers who sold off half the Red Sox in 1911 but kept the marshy Fenway land underneath. You'll hear why building a ballpark there was really a real-estate move, how the park got its name from an offhand shrug, and what covered the left field wall for its first three and a half decades before anyone called it the Green Monster. Listen for how six months and about six hundred fifty thousand dollars turned that land into the park you're standing in.