FSU Baseball playing in Fenway Park makes program history

FSU baseball will be in one of the most iconic stadiums in all of sports when they face off with Boston College on Saturday inside of Fenway Park.

In the previous 70 seasons of FSU baseball, the Seminoles have taken the field of play with six Major League Baseball teams in exhibition games during spring training – going a combined 1-12 in games against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, then Florida Marlins, Atlanta Braves (the only win), New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies and Baltimore Orioles.

In the same span, the Noles have taken the field inside minor league baseball stadiums across the state of Florida and around the southeast – including playing rival Florida every year in Jacksonville and winning the ACC tournament inside the home of the Louisville Bats while playing this year’s tournament back at the home of the Durham Bulls.

Saturday’s game against the Boston College Eagles is going to trample all of those events – as FSU baseball takes the field inside of the hollowed grounds inside Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox and one of the oldest stadiums in all of sports.

Head coach Mike Martin’s team will be playing on the same field where Ted Williams, maybe the greatest hitter ever, played. They will be from the spot where legendary moments in the sport of baseball took place – from Carlton Fisk’s home run in the 1975 World Series to the New York Yankees’ Bucky Dent hitting a homer in 1978 to knock Boston out of the playoffs.

(Yes, I am a diehard Yankees fan, so that was getting thrown in there no matter what.)

This is bigger than any spring training game in St. Pete, Cocoa Beach, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Clearwater or Miami. This means more than Durham, Louisville, Jacksonville, Fort Myers or any other site. It doesn’t matter the Seminoles are playing a team who has lost 12 of their last 16 games and sits 10 games under .500 on the season.

For one day, the Seminoles of FSU baseball are going to all be big leaguers. Some of the players will go on to play minor league baseball and some may actually make it to the show and get paid to play games inside Fenway in the future. But for one day, everyone is a big leaguer.

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Some may think that it sounds cliche, but this is a game that Martin, his staff and all those players will be talking about for the rest of their lives. Kudos to organizers for getting the teams there for a   good cause – as it will be a moment that no one in garnet and gold will forget.