Pre-Pesky Pole, check out this RF player-killer

[Bernie Carbohydrate]

In this image of Fenway from 1936, there's an angle of the stands jutting into foul territory. I wonder if any Sox RF (Dusty Cooke?) slammed into that oddity.

 

[rajendra82]

I wonder if this is an example of man's Euclidean determinations or nature's beguiling irregularities?

 

[Humphrey]

Here's another Fenway photo I found from the same place.

No bullpens! Had to be as hard to hit one out to right in Fenway as it was at the original Yankee Stadium in left.

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

Here's another Fenway photo I found from the same place.

No bullpens! Had to be as hard to hit one out to right in Fenway as it was at the original Yankee Stadium in left.

The story goes that the bullpens were built to help Ted Williams ..

 

[Harry Hooper]

Having to play deeper (due to no bullpens) may have made this angle down the foul line almost irrelevant to the right fielder? It certainly didn't get memorialized like Duffy's Cliff.

Here's a different view from 1930? There was a bullpen tucked in there.

NESN has a 1912 view here.

 

[Al Zarilla]

The story goes that the bullpens were built to help Ted Williams ..

Right, and the area became known as “Williamsburg”. Funny that Ted dropped off to “just” 23 home runs the year after they were installed, 1940. Trying too hard? He led the league in HRs the next two years though. I don’t know how long the Williamsburg name persisted. Also, where were the bullpens before Williamsburg?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nesn.com/2011/06/new-bullpens-installed-at-fenway-park-williamsburg-is-born/amp/
edit, Harry’s post shows the bullpens from before Williamsburg.

 

[teddywingman]

That park sucks. They need to tear it down and build a new park in Saugus.

 

[pedro1918]

Never mind. I missed a few hours of posting!!