CorpusRecord 25075

Fenway Park: From Family Fortune to Baseball Dream Come True!

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Source
YouTube / WACA-TV Ashland
Date
2025-05-02
Location
Middlesex County, MA
Material
Transcript
Extent
52 words · about 1 min
Collected
2026-06-05

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001The elder to Taylor saw that the ballpark was a great way to increase the value of his family's holdings. He was quite right because as soon as the ballpark began to go up, the city began to plan to extend trolley lines into the area to support all of the fans. So, in late 1911, with only a few months to go before opening day, construction began on what he would call Fenway

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