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Fenway Park's right field foul pole is called The Pesky Pole or Pesky's Pole, which came about because, as I always read, low-power mid-century shortstop Johnny Pesky had a talent for hitting balls just past or around it for home runs.
Today I learned...
Johnny Pesky hit only 17 homers in his career, 6 of them at Fenway, and no one knows how many he may have hit anywhere near the pole. So he might have only hit one somewhere near it, and maybe not even a homer, and yet the name stuck.
Today I learned...
Johnny Pesky hit only 17 homers in his career, 6 of them at Fenway, and no one knows how many he may have hit anywhere near the pole. So he might have only hit one somewhere near it, and maybe not even a homer, and yet the name stuck.