Why is fenway painted green

This MLB offseason, we are starting a countdown of the greatest moments in baseball history. These moments helped make the game what it is today. They all had an impact in the short or long term and endure to this day in the hearts and minds of baseball fans everywhere. We continue with when the Green Monster got its color, setting the stage for its place in baseball lore. Fans could sit in seats in front of the wall, hardly helping the feature have an effect on the game.

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By Jon Wertheim. By Andrew Gastelum. Taylor decided his ballclub needed a change of scenery. The old Huntington Avenue Grounds had been the team's home since its inception in , but it had seen better days -- there were patches of outfield where grass wouldn't grow and a shed just sort of hanging out in deep center.

So, with just a year left on the lease, Taylor began to look elsewhere. He landed on the corner of Lansdowne and Ipswich streets in Boston's Fenway neighborhood, a previously undeveloped bit of swampland that had been cleaned up significantly since the late 19th century.

The area was ripe for growth, and architect James McLaughlin had drawn up some state-of-the-art plans for a steel and concrete marvel that, according to the Boston Globe, would "improve the grounds so that for capacity and character, the accommodations will be second to none in the country. There was just one problem: He was worried about fans getting a free view from beyond the left-field wall. Typically, outfield fences at the time were just a few feet high remember, this was the Deadball Era, when even hitting a ball that approached the wall was a rarity.

But Lansdowne Street just happened to house a few buildings that were fairly high, which -- at least in Taylor's mind -- would enable fans to catch a game from their window or rooftop. So he had an idea: a foot-high wooden fence, stretching all the way from beyond the left-field foul pole to the center-field flag pole, ensuring that the only people who would be able to watch Red Sox baseball were those who'd paid for a ticket.