Huntington Avenue Grounds

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Huntington Avenue Grounds was a baseball stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, and the first home field for the Boston Red Sox, known as the "Boston Americans" before 1908, from 1901 to 1911. The stadium, built for $35,000 (equivalent to $1.35 million in 2025), was on what is now Northeastern University, at the time across the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad tracks from the South End Grounds, home of the Boston Braves. The stadium was the site of the first World Series game between the modern American and National Leagues in 1903, and also saw the first perfect game in the modern era, thrown by Cy Young on May 5, 1904. The playing field was built on a former circus lot and was extremely large by modern standards - 530 feet (160 m) to center field, later expanded to 635 feet (194 m) in 1908. It had many quirks not seen in modern baseball stadiums, including patches of sand in the outfield where grass would not grow, and a tool shed in deep center field that was in play. The park...

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