Fenway Park

A non-functional ladder is the reason I love Fenway and America’s pastime.

Many of us, baseball fan or not, are familiar with Fenway Park in Boston and its famous Green Monster, the 37 foot high home run wall in left field. Did you know there’s a ladder attached to it that is in play? Members of the Fenway grounds crew used to use it to retrieve balls from the netting above the Monster. In 2003 the net was replaced by seats and the ladder ceased to have any real function. It remains as a historic relic and has caused a handful of inside-the-park home runs.

I’ve seen one game at Fenway and it is pure magic. There is something special about walking out from under those seats and seeing the Green Monster for the first time. If you’ve experienced this you know what I mean. Red Sox outfielder Jonny Gomes has said that he works in a museum. It’s this sort of tangible mashup of the present and past that, I believe, makes us all fall in love with Fenway. Or maybe it’s more about what it represents. Fenway is Baseball and Baseball is Fenway. Each have woven their way through our history and become a fabric of it. It helps us remember our past.

Life is all about stories isn’t it? There is a short story happening today that started when the sun came up and ends at dusk. There is the story of this year, the story of your life, the story of your generation, the story of this country, of this world, this earth and the universe. Remembering our past is as important as innovating our future and we must not forget this. Any time we can reminded of where we’ve come from is a very good thing.

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