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The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.

Topics
- Innocence
- Working It
- Empty Seats
- Planning
- Architecture
- Ballparks
- Violation
- Epoch
- Marketing
- Eras
- Stars
- Baseball
- City Planning
- Fenway Park
- Babe
- Tris
- Watches
- Crazy
- New England
- Evergreens
- England
- Speakers
- Age
- Rice
- Symbols
- Lost
- Principles
- Cities
- Menace
- Pride
- Decades
- Consultants
- Ruth
- Parks
- Quilts
- Seats
- Empty