I’m not even a Red Sox fan but, if I’m ever in Boston, I’m going to visit Fenway Park just so I can see the Red Seat.

Photograph by David

This red seat, in the right field bleachers, is where the longest home run in Fenway Park’s history landed.  It was hit by Ted Williams on June 9th, 1946.  That’s 79 years ago today.  The seat was painted red in 1981 to honor Williams’s achievement and to make sure that no one forgot a piece of baseball history.

Photograph by Ewen Roberts

I’ve searcedh for any available film of Ted Williams hitting that record-setting homerun but I haven’t been able to find it.  I’ve found a lot of other Ted Williams’s home runs.  He was an amazing hitter and I wish I could go back and actually watch him play.  The next best thing, though, is this red seat, reminding everyone of his accomplishment.

This red seat epitomizes why I will always love baseball.  I don’t know how many times Ted Williams swung his bat over his career or how many total hits he got.  According to Wikipedia, he hit 521 career home runs.  But I will always know just how far he hit that ball 79 years ago in Fenway Park.