Great Big Canvas' selection of Fenway Park images are so dramatic, that you can almost see the fans jumping to their feet to cheer on some of the Park's baseball greats like Babe Ruth, Johnny Pesky, Ted Williams, Duffy Lewis, or Cy Young. Sweeping views of the park make it easy for interior decorators to choose just the right canvas in the right size for personal or commercial office decor. Fenway is the country's smallest, yet oldest baseball park, opening on April 20, 1912 and becoming the second home of the Sox. The Boston Americans (one of the charter members of the American League) played ball at the Huntington Avenue Grounds beginning in 1901. The team was also called at various times the Puritans, the Pilgrims, and the Plymouth Rocks before its owner, General Charles Henry Taylor, changed its name to the Red Sox.
Taylor built the new park and named it after the Fenway section of Boston where it is located. After two major fires the park was renovated and buildings and bleachers were replaced. The park had a new look when the 1934 season opened. A 23.5' screen was added at the top of the left field wall in 1936, creating the Green Monster.
In its first game at the Fenway, the Red Sox beat the New York Highlanders (later the Yankees) to the excitement of 27,000 fans. During games that would attract larger crowds, they occasionally moved to Braves Field. There were 42,000 fans at the 1915 World Series games when the Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies.
From 1912 to 1933, there was a 10-foot-high incline affront the leftfield wall. The mound was eventually named Duffy's Cliff for Duffy Lewis, Boston's left field star.
Other teams have played at Fenway Park: The Miracle Boston Braves in 1914; the Boston Patriots from 1963-68; the Boston Redskins from 1933-37; and the Boston Yanks from 1944-48. If you can't actually be at Fenway for peanuts and cracker jacks, the next best thing is a spectacular decorator canvas on your home or office wall-gallery-wrapped or framed.
