Fenway Park
Fenway Park
“By the time the 1970s began, a new attitude pervaded baseball in Boston. Smiley faces were everywhere, and not just on those ubiquitous T-shirts. Fans no longer hoped for a team that could play meaningful games after the Fourth of July, they had suddenly come to expect it. In the 1970s—through Vietnam, Watergate, the oil embargo, and the Bicentennial—the Red Sox had a winning record every season, extending their streak of consecutive winning seasons that began in 1967 to 13 by the end of the de...cade (then ultimately to 16—the most in their history). With that success, however, came seemingly inevitable heartache. They performed heroically in a World Series that many proclaimed the best ever played, which helped to take Bostonians’ minds off divisive court-ordered school busing. However, the Sox lost in the ninth inning of Game 7 on a bloop single to what many considered one of the best teams ever assembled, the 1975 Cincinnati Reds. Fenway got a facelift after that series, as an electronic message board—a first for baseball—and a padded, resurfaced left-field wall debuted in 1976.MoreLess
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