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haha! Thanks very much for the replies all of you, it's really useful to get some excellent advice! Sweet Chin Music, thank you for your reply, what time do you get there for batting practise? Do you use your standard entry ticket to get in? Can you just go to any section of the stands for the batting practise, even if your ticket isn't for there? Thanks again.

I'm sorry, I forgot another question I had wanted to ask: - Is it possible to sit in the stands during batting practise? I know from a few of the blogs that I read (Chicago, for example), that fans can go and sit in the stands and catch the flyballs from bp, is it the same at Fenway? Thanks again.

Hey all, As my info page says I'm a Red Sox fan from the UK, but I'm getting the opportunity to travel to the USA this summer initially to work, but then with a two week holiday I've given myself in September to tour the East Coast and see as much baseball as possible! I've already booked tickets to see the Nationals, Orioles, Phillies, Yankees (boo!), Pawtucket and then lastly the Red Sox at Fenway in early September. I actually cannot wait, I'm like a kid at Christmas! Anyway, after that long intro (sorry), my questions were mainly about Fenway Park; not having baseball in the the UK, I was just wondering if you guys could help me out with a number of things I was wondering about visiting Fenway: What time do most people arrive at the game? Are there things to do in/around the Stadium before the game starts? Anywhere/thing that people would really recommend? What time do the gates to the Park open? How much freedom do you have to walk around the Park between the different sections? I'm sitting behind home plate on the first night, then in the bleachers the second night, hopefully to see as much of the ground as I can, but can you walk to, say, the very top of the grand stand just to sneak a peak of the game, even if you don't have a seat there? What is the very best food/drink I should try when I visit in the Park? What is the polite thing to do in terms of going to get food/drink if you're not on the end of the row? End of/between innings/not while the game is in play? Lastly, watching the game on TV at the moment (2.43am!), and obviously it looks bloody cold! Recommended clothes to wear to a game in late Autumn? Sorry if any (all??) of the answers seem insanely obvious, I just wanted to try and find out some info about visiting the Park; it's amazing how many sites out there can give you the exact dimensions of Fenway since it was opened, yet hardly anywhere will tell you what time the gates open! Thanks, Alex

Cheers guys! Although I'm afraid I'm going to have to admit to not liking scotch myself...

Hey all, I've been reading a few of the other hello's from the UK in this Topic, so I'll try and keep this short! I'm 21, originally from North London but now studying at the University of Stirling, and have been a Red Sox fan since 2003. I joined to hopefully meet some more enthusiastic fans, and to keep my knowledge of this great game going. Thanks, and I look forward to talking to you all, Alex P.S. As I was writing this, Darnell McDonald just crushed a home run of CC Sabathia in the bottom of the 3rd, so hopefully that is good sign for my future on this forum!

Living in the UK, having the Red Sox to listen to late at night, or very occasionally watch whilst baseball was still shown on terrestrial TV here, got me through the incredibly painful divorce of my parents.