Batting Practice: Fenway To Allow Fans To Hit In Visitors' Cage

Fenway Park will allow fans to "enter the visiting team's batting cage and take swings" when the Red Sox are out of town, in an attempt to "attract more year-round traffic to the Fenway area," according to Bella English of the BOSTON GLOBE. The experience is open to groups of at least 20 people paying $50-75 per person for a private party at Game On, a Fenway restaurant "outside the gates." When the Red Sox are "at Fenway, restaurant patrons will be able to watch -- free of charge -- the visiting team take batting practice through" a window in the bar that Game On Owner Patrick Lyons "hopes to have ... ready by [Fenway] opening day on April 8." Lyons Group Marketing Manager Lindsay Curtis said that "security will be stationed at the window," and Lyons and Red Sox officials said that they "aren't aware of any other [MLB] team with such an arrangement" (BOSTON GLOBE, 2/12).