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Red Sox: New England By the Numbers
When $5 bought a box seat in Fenway park
by Ian Aldrich
Credit: Library of Congress
Red Sox team photo at World Series, 1912
$450,000
cost to build Fenway Park in 1912 (team worth in 2008: $816 million)
$5
price for a 1912 World Series box seat at brand-new Fenway Park10,454
fans who came to Fenway Park September 28, 1960, to witness Ted Williams' final at-bat (a home run)
31,458
days between Boston's fifth (1918) and sixth (2004) World Series titles
1096
days between Boston's sixth (2004) and seventh (2007) titles
3
weight in pounds of each 16x16-inch numeric plate on Fenway Park's manual scoreboard
1
number of bars named "Fenway Park" in Kyoto, Japan
18,000
estimated baseballs bought by the Red Sox each season
$60,000,000
dollars injected into the Fort Myers, Florida, economy during Red Sox spring training
778/993
(sigh) Boston's all-time win/loss record against the New York Yankees
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