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The Boss Goes to Bat in Boston

Tue., Jun. 24, 2003 1:35 PM PDT by Josh Grossberg

Hot dogs, peanuts, Cracker Jack...and the Boss? Summertime couldn't get any better than this.

Rounding the bases of his current yearlong "barnstorming tour" in support of his Grammy-winning The Rising, Bruce Springsteen is taking his hungry heart to Boston's Fenway Park.

The New Jersey rocker's management has confirmed that the historic home of Major League Baseball's perennially pennant-less Red Sox will play host to its first ever rock concert as Springsteen and his E Street Band hit the field on September 6.

"We know what Fenway means to the people of Boston and are very appreciative to the Boston Red Sox for the opportunity to play at this great symbol of the city of Boston. It will be a night we all remember," says Jon Landau, Springsteen's manager, in a statement.

Talk about a lucky town.

Fenway Park is one of six venues recently added to Springsteen's summer outdoor jaunt. The other new stops include ballparks in Detroit, Milwaukee and Chicago, as well as stadiums in Buffalo and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The trek gets underway July 15 with a record string of 10 dates at Giants Stadium in Springsteen's home state of New Jersey.

The only other occasion that Fenway and its famed Green Monster outfield wall have played host for something other than a baseball game was in 1973, when the Newport Jazz Festival relocated there for two days with performances by Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder. (For the record, Smash Mouth did perform its hit "All Star" during the All-Star Game festivities at the park in 1999.)

According to the Boston Globe, Red Sox representatives petitioned Boston's Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing to grant permits authorizing concerts at the 36,000-seat park on September 6 and 7, opening up the possibility that a second show may be added at a later date.

The licensing office, run by director Patricia Malone, has 30 days to give the okay, but as far as Larry Cancro, senior vice president of Fenway affairs for the team, is concerned, it's a done deal.

"I'm very optimistic. I think it's an appropriate show. It's a good venue for the show," says Cancro, who calls the teaming of Fenway and Springsteen the perfect match of an "iconic ballpark and an iconic rock act."

Since hitting the thunder road nearly a year ago, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and his reunited E Streeters have relived the glory days, selling an astonishing 3 million tickets while crisscrossing the United States and Europe.

Yankees fans are advised to be on their best behavior. Tickets for the Fenway gig will go on sale on Friday via Ticketmaster.