Red Sox vs Blue Jays - The Patriots Day Game

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Venue:	Fenway Park Tours
Hours:	11:05am
In/Outdoor:	Outdoor
Cost:	see below
Category:	Sporting Events

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Every year, on the third Monday in April, the Red Sox play host to the only morning game on the entire Major League Baseball schedule. The annual 11:05 a.m. game at Fenway Park is part of the festivities of Patriots’ Day, a federally recognized holiday in Massachusetts.

Many people have never heard of Patriots’ Day, which was a distinctly New England holiday prior to 2001, when Wisconsin became just the third state in the U.S. to honor the events that led to the American Revolution. Maine, a part of Massachusetts during Colonial times, is the only other state to recognize the holiday.

The Red Sox have been scheduled to play at home on Patriots' Day every year since 1960, except for an off day in 1967 and the players strike in 1995.

First observed in 1894, the holiday commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord that were fought on April 19, 1775. These battles started the American Revolutionary War and were made famous because they spawned the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

Besides a Red Sox game, reenactments of the battles at Lexington and Concord have become a Patriots’ Day tradition.

Despite the hoopla surrounding the game at Fenway Park, the Boston Marathon is the biggest sporting event of the day, as over one million people line the 26.2-mile course that starts in Hopkinton and finishes in Copley Square.

The Boston Marathon - the world's oldest annual marathon at 114 years – has been run on Patriots’ Day since 1897 – four years before the Red Sox became a charter member of the American League.

COST

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Limited Single Seat Tickets Available

WEBSITE

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redsox.mlb.com/schedule/index.jsp?c_id=bos#m=4&y=2011

LOCATION

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Lansdowne Street, Boston, MA map
Phone: (617) 236-6666