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Fenway Park generates more revenue than many facilities less than half its age

The Red Sox will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park Friday afternoon, and while the ballpark is the “oldest facility in any of the major U.S. sports leagues still in active and continuous use,” the venue “remains the quirkiest, most unusual ballpark in MLB,” according to Eric Fisher of SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. Fenway has been an “inspiration for dozens of other newer facilities, and has sparked its own literary subgenre with writers such as John Updike famously dubbing Fenway ‘a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark.’” The fact it is at the century mark also “contains an unlikely comeback story that on paper would probably be too unrealistic for Hollywood scriptwriters. ...