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More Development, Less Home Runs?

Posted by: Mike Lydon

9 February 2006 - 10:00am

A new mixed-use development in Boston's Fenway neighborhood is causing quite a stir -- not with the NIMBY crowd, but with the Fenway faithful who are concerned that the new development has created a wind pattern that will prevent home runs.

"There's some new turbulence blowing over Fenway Park these days.

Literally.

Wind patterns in the 94-year-old baseball temple are being affected by new construction in the neighborhood, and it just might turn a David Ortiz bleacher blast into a warning-track catch by a certain clean-shaven Yankees center fielder.

'We had a wind study done by an independent consultant,' said John Giangregorio of D'Agostino, Izzo and Quirk, chief architects of the ongoing renovations at the park. 'I think you'll find that there might be slightly fewer balls that are going to find their way those last few feet over the fence or over the Green Monster. I think somebody like Ortiz is not going to like that.'"

Full Story: Winds and Losses
Source: The Boston Globe, February 8, 2006
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