The Green Godzilla
Midori Kaiju Midori Gojira
formerly known as :
The Green Monster
Welcomes
Daisuke Matsuzaka
aka: The Monster
Kaiju Matsuzaka Matsuzaka Kaiju
to
Fenway Park
Home of the Boston Red Sox
Formerly known as the Green Monster or known simply as The Monster or The Wall,
Some think it may be time for name change.
"The Green Godzilla"
This is the newest nickname for the 37-foot, two-inch (11.3 m) left field wall at Fenway Park, home to the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
A little History
Part of the original ballpark construction of 1912, the wall is made of wood, but was covered in tin and concrete in 1934, and then hard plastic in 1976.
A manual scoreboard is set into the wall. Despite the name, the Green Monster was not painted green until 1947; before that it was covered with advertisements.
The wall is the highest in professional baseball, and is famous for preventing home runs on many line drives that would clear the walls of other ballparks.
A side effect of this is to increase the prevalence of doubles, since this is the most common result when the ball is hit off the wall (often referred to as a "wallball double").
Some leftfielders, predominantly those with vast Fenway experience, have become adept at fielding caroms off the wall to throw runners out at second base or hold the batter to a single. Compared with other current major league parks, the wall's placement creates a comparatively shallow left field; the wall falls approximately 310 feet from the plate along the left-field foul line.
Consequently, although the wall turns some line-drive homers into doubles, it also allows some high yet shallow fly balls to clear the field of play for a home run.
About the Green Godzilla (aka: Monster)
The distance from home plate to the Monster has long been disputed.
For many years, it was posted as 315 feet.
During the Red Sox pennant race in 1975, an overhead photograph of Fenway Park was shown to a man who had analyzed reconnaissance photos in preparation for bombing missions in World War II.
He determined that the foul pole was just 304 feet from home plate, but the marker on the wall was not changed.
Writers from the Boston Globe once snuck onto the field and measured it as 304.7 feet. In 1990, Red Sox management relabeled the distance at 310 feet, though many people still believe it to be closer than that.
During 2001 and 2002, the Green Godzilla's (aka:Monster's) height record was temporarily beaten by the center field wall at Cinergy Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.
During the construction of Great American Ball Park, located right next to Cinergy Field, a large section of seats was removed from the center field area to make room and a 40 foot black wall was erected as a temporary batter's eye. The entire wall was in play, too.
This new wall was often called "The Black Monster."
When Cinergy Field was demolished in 2002, the Green Godzilla (aka:Monster) reclaimed the record .
"Zilla"
the New Team Mascot
.
The old team mascot has been replaced
by
"Zilla"
A "fire breathing","building crushing", prehistoric looking but loveable mascot.
She plans to get the crowd ROARing for the team this season!
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Exerpts from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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