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芬威(Fenway)永存：棒球文化
地方性遗产
棒球是美国人最爱的休闲娱乐，而波士顿的芬威球场(Fenway
Park)则是最老的大联盟棒球场，波士顿人对这座球场的喜爱不亚于他们对棒球球员的热爱。芬威球场于1912年4月20日正式启用，因为它位于名为Fens的波士顿区内，所以才会取名为芬威。
芬威球场在美国的棒球传说中扮演了一个重要的角色。1935年9月22日，芬威球场容纳了47,627名前来观看洋基队双重赛的群众，这也是芬威球场有史以来的最高入场人数。芬威球场内的最远距离打击球是落在右外野露天看台内的全垒打球。为纪念这颗球的落点，他们将被球打到的露天看台座位漆成红色。而这颗全垒打球是由底特律老虎队的弗瑞德哈钦森(Fred
Hutchinso)投出、再由泰德威廉斯(Ted
Williams)于1946年6月9日击出。击球距离总长502英尺。传说这颗球打穿了坐在42区37排21号位子上的男人的草帽！
时至今日，芬威是大联盟棒球中，少数几个仍继续经营中的老式棒球场。据传它将被拆建并在原址兴建一个更加现代化的建筑物，但波士顿内的许多居民情愿重新修复，而不要用别的球场替换他们钟爱的芬威。所以1998年时，他们发起了拯救芬威球场运动(Save
Fenway Park!)，希望能够保留这座老式棒球场。
Baseball is known as America's favorite pastime and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, is major league baseball's oldest ballpark. Bostonians have come to love the park as much as they do the team that plays there. Fenway Park, which opened on April 20, 1912, got its name because it was in an area of Boston known as the Fens.
Fenway Park has played a big role in American baseball legend. The largest baseball crowd ever at Fenway was 47,627, for a Yankees doubleheader on September 22, 1935. The longest measurable home run ever hit inside Fenway Park landed in the right-field bleachers. The seat is painted red to mark the spot. Ted Williams hit the home run on June 9, 1946, off Fred Hutchinson of the Detroit Tigers. The blast was measured at 502 feet. Legend says that the ball crashed through the straw hat of the man sitting in the seat -- Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21!
Today, Fenway is one of major league baseball's few remaining old ballparks. There has been talk of replacing it with a more modern structure, but many people in Boston want to restore, rather than replace, their beloved Fenway. In 1998, they organized Save Fenway Park! to promote ways to preserve the old ballpark.
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