Fenway Park and Jersey Street

Boston had Jackie Robinson on this field first, and came last.

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Brick main entrance of Fenway Park · Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

The Boston Red Sox had Jackie Robinson on this field two years before he played a major league game, and then became the last team in the majors to field a Black player. He got here because of a threat about Sundays. Sunday baseball in Boston depended on a waiver from the city's old blue laws. A city councillor, Isadore Muchnick, told the club to give Black players a chance or risk losing those Sundays.

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Visiting

4 Jersey Street, Boston. The street is public. Inside only on a paid ballpark tour: daily all year, adults $30, children 3 to 12 $21, 10 to 5 from November to March, 9 to 5 from April to October (club site, read 5 November 2026; last tour earlier on game days).