Fenway Park : From the Luxury Box

This is the view from the Luxury Box. The distance between the Pitcher and the Hitter is closer than we had imagined or saw on TV. It is 60 1/2 ft.

Being Cricket fans since childhood, we immediately compared the distance with the length of the pitch in Cricket which is 22 yards (66 ft) :-)

This was laid newly immediately after the Red Sox won the World Series last year with new sprinklers et al. The old one was completely dug out and relaid.

When the luxury box was built and spectators sat there to watch the game, it was the best silent movie they'd ever seen. Sitting inside the air-conditioned glass cabin with cushioned seats and attached bar, watching the game was not so enjoyable. The glass is baseball proof, about 1.5 inches thick so they did not hear anything. Next, the owners tried various things like connecting speakers to the microphones set up in various places in the field, but the spectators could hear the players swearing! Then they tried editing that and relaying it with 4 secs latency, didn't work, now they are hearing the same thing that we would hear on TV.