Am looking at buying tickets for a game this summer and am wondering what's better -- Field Box 87, which looks directly at homeplate but might be next to a grandstand wall or Field Box 92, which is in the corner but in the midst of other field boxes. We're coming in from out of town and I can't seem to find a seating chart that shows general views from those -- or any -- sections.

Of those 2 sections, I'd suggest 92...it's a straight on view of the field. 87 you are facing into the outfield walls, and must constantly be looking left to see home plate....just one of the quirks of Fenway....

www.seatdata.com

Go Yankees!

I think milemarker has it backwards -

You will regret it if you pick section 92 - seats at Fenway are very small and narrow, and you can not turn your body in a seat to face the action - you must just turn your head. So if you sit in that section by the 5th inning you will have a miserable stiff neck.

We have sat in section above 87 (section 1)- really cool seats. You are directly across from the bleachers so you can watch drunks do strange things and get escorted out by police. You also have great view of visitors bullpen, so you can yell nasty things at them (not too nasty, or you will also get escorted out).

Grandstand wall you are concerned about is not really a wall - it is only chest high, you can see over it.

I am assuming you have some source for tickets other than regular Red Sox on-line tickets, since these are sold out.

Am also assuming you have not been to Fenway. Some advice - the food really is awful - don't plan on a real meal there. Fortunately, most of the bathrooms work these days (since new owners took over several years ago and made real efforts to fix up the Park).

The crowd is likely to erupt into a Yankees Sxxk chant, even if they are not playing the Yankees. Towards end of the game, the inexplicably play Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline (story is that some intern played it as filler music and liked the response from crowd).

Bunkhedena - great site for checking out seats. But you are surely misguided about the Yankees.

Thanks all. We've been to Fenway only one other time and although I had been to the seatdata site, I couldn't bring myself to pay an extra $10 -- on top of splurging on StubHub -- to see their photos in greater detail. Every diagram I saw of the park, however, seemed to suggest that people in 87 were looking directly at homeplate, albeit from a distance. And Yankees. Red Sox. We'll just be glad to see real baseball. Unlike the kind we see here in Philadelphia.

We have found prices at aceticket (they have a website) to be comparable to StubHub and have used them on several occasions, including very expensive Super Bowl tickets. We felt more comfortable dealing with an actual person in an actual building and not with individuals via a middleman on-line.

One thing one now has to be very careful of with all resale tickets (legal thru agencies or scalpers on the street) is that many tickets are now sold with an option to print them on your home computer. We use this all the time and it is great - but there is nothing to stop one from printing any number of the same ticket and selling those. The disclaimer on the website of Ticketmaster and others is that first ticket thru turnstyle with that barcode is accepted - all others turned away.

So make sure you are dealing with someone reputable (I would include both above mentioned agencies in that list), especially if you are buying home printed tickets.

I have nothing to add other than to use this thread as an excuse to say


GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!

seating chart on redsox.mlb.com:


http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/...rk/seating.jsp

I've not sat in those field boxes, but I have sat in the grandstands above them. I've been in sections 1,4,5 and 7 at various times. Given the choice, I'd take section 1. This is behind fb87. as others have said, the angle is just more comfortable, you won't have to turn your neck so much. Also, Fenway is so small, that even distant seats have a pretty nice view. you won't feel far away sitting in box 87.

the food at Fenway, I think has improved a little bit over the years. I mean, its still mostly hot dogs and pizza but its not awful. the "Big Concourse" is behind those grandstands, so you get some more choices now. or, if you want to get something before you go in the park, get a cuban at the Luis Tiant stand outside on Yawkey before the game.

if you need any more help, give a yell. I go to about a dozen games a season and know my way around pretty well.

can't wait for opening day! I've got tix (yeah, they're in grandstand section 4, so they suck...but they're seats!) Go Sox!

Seems to me that there was a difference at Fenway re rules for getting up to get a drink etc. Not like in other parks, IMHO.

There seemed to be a "time" for you to move/ not move. Pay attention.

Ooops, Gail was right...I had it backwards....you want 87. I guess I was too excited about Opening Day that I reversed them....all the other info still applies.

JJ5 - I only wish there were such rules. Maybe the new owners are enforcing them in some of the expensive seats but for the most part its a free for all and a big pain. Everybody gts up when they want. Some wait until between innings but then inevitably they come part with the inning underway.

I think is is because seating at Fenway is so damn uncomfortable that everyone gets up a couple of hundred times/game. Also, park is set up such that exit aisles are a long walk down a seating row - so one person leaving means a dozen or more people must stand to let them by. And exit aisles often are in places that walkers-by interfere with sight lines of several rows.

No beer sold in seats - which is probably a good idea since even with the above-mentioned architectural challenges, everyone who wants still manages to get enough beer.

From where you are sitting you should be able to yell some nice encouraging cheers to Coco Crisp (center field) - who has such a cool name that I will give him a bye until mid-season on his playing ability.

We had a good time- but I was really surprised about the no beer sold in the seats etc. And there was definitely a pattern my son discerned when trying to get up when the field was changing at mid-inning, at the two games (same seats) we had.

I thought, like the beer sales thing, there was a "aisle" walking rule from the comments around us. Just wanted to be in the know and not mis-step.

Fenway was fun but very close. I have to say I'll always trade some "atmosphere" for a great set of washrooms.

But we really did love the whole and although the fans didn't talk with us much, they didn't talk to each other much either. Anyone who hates the Yankees can't be all bad, IMHO. LOL!

If you can't get tix and are dying to see Fenway, or even if you do get tix, they do have tours if that is something that would interest you.

No beer served at seats, but you can get other treats....and here's my Yankee fan story.... took my little cousin to a game when he was young -in his full sox memorabilia outfit... I was engrossed in game and suddenly looked to my left and he was eating an ice cream - I said, I guess rather loudly in my surprise "where did you get that from?" and then look to my right and a man (obvious yankee fan) smiled, yes SMILED at us and said "let the kid enjoy it."......so he'd flagged for an ice cream but it never quite made it to him as it was passed down the row.....maybe they're worried that would happen with beers

Escargot, I love that story! I'm sure you're right about the beer as well. Makes the aisle seats really appealing if it puts you first in the free beer line. When my daughters were teens we took them to plenty of games where the hormonally charged seat vendors would try to woo them with free Sportsbars, popcorn, etc. My husband and I appreciated the overflow. Oh to be young and cute again!

The beer sale thing is a remnant of the many old Massachusetts "blue laws", many dating from hundreds of years ago (about the time it seems Fenway was built!). Same set of laws that until recently prohibited sale of alcohol on Sundays, some holidays.

To OP - after you have been a second time to Fenway, if you have been to other ballparks, would be interested in your opinion of the experience - not in terms of a historical, "have to do it once in my life" point of view, but in terms of those who visit this ball park multiple times each year and would like a little leg room, a little wider seat, etc.

)Obviously I am one of those who think, despite its history, a new comfortable ballpark would be really nice)

there is a ballpark rule about not leaving your seat during an inning. at the beginning of the season they try to enforce it a little bit. What they do is have ushers who will prevent you from returning to your seat until the inning is over. this can mean getting stuck in a clog at the top of an aisle an unable to see.

They don't enforce it often. The main thing is people walking in the aisles do obscure sight lines, so try to be nice.

Recently they interviewed the architect who has worked on the new seats. And they admitted that at some point they would probably remove the seats from the bowl and rebuild it, losing a row or 2, to make the seats a tiny bit more comfortable. That would be a welcome improvement.

I knew something was happening, chinacat- that I had never seen elsewhere besides the no beer sales thing. There were back ups in the entrances just as you describe.

And if I had a dollar for each beer I've passed along an entire row of 10 to 15 people, or cotton candy, or Lemon Chill, or even Frozen Margherita (there are probably 10 to 20 things being sold in my stands during the game)- but especially the beers; then I would have enough money to see all the rest of the parks I haven't visited yet.

And I have never witnessed beer-knapping, nor payment leakage, or any such variety of stealing in all the years at both White Sox parks. I have been offered peanuts along the way though- with offer not taken.

Do I love where I live! I have actually heard people offer apology for some spillage on the way.

Another option for tix is Ebay.

I'be bought them there with success.