PLACE: Fenway Park;
Boston, MA
EVENT: First Home Run Over
The Green Monster
Fenway
Park opened in 1912, and the massive rampart in left field probably
seemed insurmountable to most hitters of the time. As it turns out,
it didn't take long for someone to break the mystique of the Green
Monster.
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| The Boston Globe's illustration, accompanying the A's-Red Sox recap. These old illustrations are just the best. |
With
the Philadelphia Athletics visiting Boston at The Fens on April 26th,
bench player Hugh Bradley hit a blast over the wall with two on and
two out in the seventh inning in a 7-6 Red Sox win. Bradley was
getting a rare start that day, taking the place of first baseman Jake
Stahl, who was out of the lineup with an upper respiratory infection.
Bradley would only play 40 games that season.
It was also his only
homer of the year, and one of only two for his career (277 games, 913
AB).
Bradley
went 2-4 with a double in the first, as well as the aforementioned
homer in the seventh, driving in four runs and scoring two. He also
made a notable play when he sprinted between RHP
Hugh Bedient and 2B Steve Yerkes to snag a pop-up off the bat of A's
LF Amos Strunk in the ninth inning, taking away the last chance for
the A's to put the potential tying run on base.
From
The Boston Globe; April 27th, 1912:
From
The Philadelphia Inquirer; April 27th, 1912:
