Home Field Advantage

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Read the Boston Globe editorial about this report.

Home Field Advantage Executive Summary (PDF format, 4 pages, 60 KB file). Summary of the Home Field Advantage report (see description below).

Home Field Advantage: Why Renovating Fenway Park Makes Sense (PDF format, 34 pages, 2.1 MB file). This report provides eleven reasons why the Red Sox, their fans and the city of Boston would be better served by a renovation of Fenway Park than by the construction of a new stadium. Fenway Park brings the Red Sox exceptionally strong revenues and an enduring historic legacy; it is also a cultural landmark, the most exciting ballpark in the majors and an integral part of what makes Boston unique among American cities.

Home Field Advantage cover (PDF format, 1 pages, 1.1 MB file). Color, hi-res cover page for the Home Field Advantage report.

Home Field Advantage: Appendix A (PDF format, 7 pages, 100 KB file). A collection of favorable quotations about Fenway Park.

Home Field Advantage: Appendix B (PDF format, 4 pages, 536 KB file). Description of Fenway Park renovation plan developed by the Boston firm Wood + Zapata Architects that adds about 8,500 seats.

Home Field Advantage: Appendix C (PDF format, 19 pages, 3.9 MB file). Description of Fenway Park renovation plan developed under the leadership of stadium designer Rolando Llanes and Philip Bess as part of the Future Fenway Design Initiative in August 2000. This plan reconstructs the grandstand and adds a new close-to-the-action upper deck in keeping with the scale of historic ballparks.

Home Field Advantage: Appendix D (PDF format, 15 pages, 2.4 MB file). Description of Fenway Park renovation plan developed under the leadership of Howard Decker as part of the Future Fenway Design Initiative in August 2000. This plan incorporates a relatively minimal nunber of changes to the ballpark.

Home Field Advantage: Appendix E (PDF format, 5 pages, 108 KB file). Covers a variety of ideas that can be incorporated into renovation of Fenway Park, improving the Fenway experience for fans and the Red Sox' bottom line. Also includes a list of improvements the new ownership has already implemented as of April 2002.

Home Field Advantage: Appendix F (PDF format, 6 pages, 220 KB file). Memorandum of prominent Boston attorney, Herbert P. Gleason, Esquire, on the unconstitutionality of eminent domain land takings for professional sports venues in Massachusetts.

Home Field Advantage: Appendix MLS (PDF format, 15 pages, 252 KB file). The "Major League Steal" report issued by the the MassPIRG public interest organization in March 2000 to refute questionable economic claims put forward by new stadium boosters.

See also the June 2001 Some Observations on a New Fenway Park report by sports economist Prof. Robert A. Baade that first made the points that Fenway Park is financially viable and the Boylston Street stadium plan risked worsening the Red Sox financial condition.