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This seat is taken Red Sox to honor Williams' longest Fenway home runPosted: Friday July 05, 2002 10:51 PM
BOSTON (AP) -- Kristin Matthews knew something was up when she showed the usher her ticket and he greeted her by name. Matthews had purchased Fenway Park's famous red bleacher seat, the one that commemorates the longest homer Ted Williams ever hit at the ballpark. To honor Williams, who died Friday, the team will leave the seat empty for the rest of the season. "Today is a sad day for baseball," Matthews, who was given seats in a luxury box in exchange, told reporters during Boston's game against Detroit on Friday night. "I think that was a wonderful memorial for him." A 28-year-old graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Matthews was attending a game at Fenway Park for the first time with tickets she bought over the Internet. She is trying to visit 12 to 15 ballparks this summer, having already been to Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium. Williams homered off Tigers pitcher Fred Hutchinson on June 9, 1946. The ball landed on Joseph A. Boucher, a 56-year-old construction engineer from Albany, N.Y., who was sitting in Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21. "The sun was right in our eyes," Boucher said at the time. "All we could do is duck."
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