Fenway Park reopens.

The Boston Red Sox lose 6-5 to the Washington Senators at Fenway Park. The renovated stadium has been expanded to seat 37,500 and the left field wall raised to a height of 37 feet. (A 23 ft. 5 in. wire net is installed on top of it to keep windows from being broken across Lansdowne Street in 1936.) Bull pens are added In right field in 1940, lights are installed and the wall is painted green in 1947. John Updike later writes, “It was built in 1912 and rebuilt in 1934, and offers, as do most Boston artifacts, a compromise between Man’s Euclidean determinations and Nature’s beguiling irregularities.” The the net in left field is replaced by the so-called “Green Monster Seats” in 2003.