Save Fenway Park!

Sports Temples of Boston: The Boston Public Library has assembled images of the greatest sports battlegrounds in Boston, featuring, of course, Fenway Park. These images span 100 years from 1872 through 1972. (2/26/04)
Gate B Fenway Park - a tribute to Fenway Park.: Many photos, along with diagrams of Red Sox proposal and alternative renovation proposals.
Fenway Photos: Decent description of Fenway Park, along with lots of positive testimonies from site visitors. Why not add a comment of your own?
Fans of the Sox and Fenway: Listen to radio sports commentaries that aired on Boston public radio station WBUR in October 2003. In the second piece, Steve Burgard makes the case for why Fenway Park is "perhaps the nation's greatest sports arena."
virtual Fenway Park: A 3D model of Fenway Park (requires downloading additional software to view it).
fan tribute to Fenway Park: A small site with photos and text on Fenway Park, put together by a couple of Trinity College students.
Fenway Park Blueprints: View blueprints of ballparks and get one of your own

Fenway Park articles/columns

ESPN.com on Fenway: The premiere sports webstie ran a special series of articles on the prospects for renovating Fenway Park in 2000.
Fenway Park and Other Places Wild to the Heart, by Michael Rogner: An environmentalist explains why he has joined the fight to save Fenway Park (Elysian Fields Quarterly, 1999).
More Progress Run Amok by Tom Magliozzi: The cohost of NPR's Car Talk, lends his support on the CarTalk webpage: "Fenway Park is old. It needs to be renovated. But, rather than renovation, the owners, politicians and money grubbers of all kinds want to tear it down AND use taxpayer money to build a new park."
Fenway Preservation Plea: Fenway Park was named on Historic Massachusetts' 10 Most Endangered Resources Listing in 1999
Feeding the Green Monster: In 2000, ESPN.com columnist Rob Neyer attended every game at Fenway Park. In this journal, Neyer captures the magic of baseball at Fenway Park: the fans, the players, the history, in the place where it all comes together like nowhere else.
Farewell to Fenway? by Lane Hartill: In the run up to the July 1999 All-Star Game, the Christian Science Monitor ran an excellent article on Fenway Park. The website version includes an interactive photo gallery and "voices from Fenway" audio-files.

SFP! partners

Citizens Against Stadium Subsidies: CASS is a broad coalition of public interest and citizen's groups opposed to taxpayer subsidies for private sports facilities in Massachusetts. (SFP! is a founding member of CASS). This site includes the reports "Major League Steal," "Fenway Pork," and the Welcome to Wallyworld cartoon, which debunked false claims about the Red Sox new stadium proposal (in 2000).
Fenway Community Development Corporation: The Fenway CDC, the largest Fenway neighborhood advocacy group, is an active opponent of the Red Sox new stadium plan, and long-time proponent of an alternative "Urban Village" neighborhood-building plan. The CDC cosponsored (with SFP!) the Future Fenway design symposium.
Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review: Wonderful articles of baseball history, fiction, philosophy, and commentary.

Sports Stadium Scams

Field of Schemes: This website developed out of the book Field of Schemes, by Neil de Mause and Johanna Cagan. The first place to go to understand the economics and politics of sports stadium scams.
League of Fans: The mission of League of Fans is to improve sports by working as a sports industry watchdog to increase awareness of the industry's relationship to society, expose irresponsible business practices, ensure fan accountability, and encourage the sports industry to contribute to societal well-being.
Business of Baseball: Analysis of baseball economics by the knowledgeable and insightful Doug Pappas.
Coalition Against Public Funding for Stadiums: A coalition against to "wasting tax revenue on subsidizing millionaires to build ball parks," which is spearheading the opposition to massive taxpayer subsidies for replacing the St. Louis Cardinals' Busch Stadium.
"Bud? You there, Bud?" by Ron Kampeas (AP, 4/27/2001): Great commentary on the success of the 2001 Twins and how they hurt the public subsidies for sports stadiums arguments, and how the commissioners support those scams hurts the sport as a whole .
Sports Fans Organizing to Protest 'Corporate Welfare' by Ron Kampeas (AP, 4/27/2001): Across the country, more and more fans, small businessmen and community leaders say using public money to build sports arenas for major league teams is "corporate welfare." They hope to unite long-simmering local protests into a nationwide movement.
Give Fans A Chance Act: Legislation proposed by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) which would allow local governments right of first refusal to purchase a team before it could be relocated. (This would be made a condition of the leagues keeping their anti-trust exemptions that allow them to negotiate national TV contracts.)
Fenway Action Coalition: A fiesty citizen's group in Boston's Fenway neighborhood that strongly opposes Red Sox new stadium plans
The Imbalance Sheet: The New Stadium Fallacy by Keith Law: An interview with Brad Humphreys, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who has spent several years researching the true economic impact of sports teams.

Boston Red Sox Fan sites

A Haven for Die Hard Red Sox Fans
The Yaz Website
Fenway Nation
The All.Info/Sports/Baseball/Boston_Red_Sox: A ever expanding page of links (with descriptions) relating to all things Red Sox, even SFP.

Other ballpark(s) information

Ballparks.com: For fans of sports playing fields, with section on past, present, and proposed ballparks, as well as football stadiums, and basketball and hockey arenas.
Friends of Tiger Stadium: Read the latest in the effort to bring baseball back to Tiger Stadium.
Tiger Stadium resurrection?: Michigan & Trumbull, LLC, is a company founded in 1999 for the express purpose of preserving and utilizing historic Tiger Stadium. While the Tigers have foolishly moved on to the vast wasteland known as Comerica Park, Tiger Stadium still stands and could host exhibition and college games, and perhaps even a minor league franchise.
Ebbetts-Field.com: Ebbets-Field.com is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of Brooklyn's lost shrine, the Ebbets Field ballpark.
WrigleyExpansion.com: A place for fans to comment on the expansion of Wrigley Field. Good collection of article links on the topic.
Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark: Former major league pitcher Jim Bouton's (author of Ball Four) recounts with pluck and humor his adventure trying to save one of America's oldest ballparks, Wahconah Field (in Pittsfield,MA). Incredibly, since the book was published, Bouton and friends have been offered an honest chance at saving the historic park!