Red Sox vs. Nationals
The phone just rang. Faith and I quickly read the caller ID ... "DAD!" I grabbed it first and answered it. Dad said "Guess where I am?" I heard an enormous applause and cheering. The Red Sox game! (Emily would be jealous). He said that he was sitting over left field by the Green Monster.

The above pic is of Fenway's Green Monster. The Green Monster is the wall in the background that was built in 1912 as part of the original ballpark. 1934 it was covered in tin and concrete and in 1976 again covered in hard plastic. It wasn't painted green until 1947. It is said that it was built high to protect the neighboring residential homes from fly balls.

The Green Monster is the highest wall in professional baseball, thus preventing home runs on many line drives that would have otherwise cleared the wall of other ballparks. When the ball is hit off of the wall the most common result is a double. If compared with other pro ballparks, the wall is shallow at 310 feet from the plate at the left-field foul line. This allows a high, but short fly ball to clear the wall for a home run.

Below is a pic of the wall now. The seats were added in 2003 and 2005. This is where, if I'm not mistaken, Dad was sitting.