FENWAY LAND BOUGHT, WILL IT PUT A CRAMP IN RED SOX'S PLANS?

          A parcel of Fenway land "coveted" by the Red Sox for
     their ballpark plans is being "bought by a prominent Boston-
     based shopping center developer, who says he has no interest
     in building a ballpark," according to Jack Meyers of the
     BOSTON HERALD.  Steve Samuels, the developer of the South
     Bay Center shopping complex, said he has a deal to buy four
     parcels between Brookline Avenue and Boylston Street, "the
     ostensible centerpiece" of the team's ballpark site. 
     Samuels "denied" that the transaction was a "speculative
     venture aimed at cashing in on the Red Sox's plans."  Meyers
     wrote that the purchase "could dramatically affect" the
     team's planning efforts for a new stadium close to Fenway
     Park, "either by boxing the team out of its primary site,
     raising the price tag on a new facility or putting a new
     'partner' in the picture" (BOSTON HERALD, 8/10).