Robert P. Miller Park - Delray Beach, Fla.
Delray Beach has its own Green Monster, and it shares similarities with the one in Boston.
Photo courtesy of Tom Kwiatek, City of Delray Beach
The Green Monster has been replicated in Florida, of all places, and for high school players. Even better, a man who hit one of the most famous homers over the actual Green Monster in Boston holds camps where the replica lives. Folks, view the Little Green Monster.
Local look: "It’s nestled inside Marlins country and surrounded by numerous transplanted Yankees fans, but Delray Beach, Fla., does its best to welcome Red Sox Nation. Not far west of the beach sits a replica of a famous Boston landmark. The main baseball field at Miller Park is named Little Fenway, complete with a replica of the famed left field Green Monster. It’s the home field for nearby Atlantic High School’s Eagles.
"It’s also the home of former New York Yankee Bucky Dent’s Baseball School, and the scoreboard that adorns the Green Monster reflects the line score of the Yankees’ 1978 American League East division playoff game against the Red Sox in which Dent’s still-talked-about three-run homer powered the New Yorkers to a 5-4 win that gave the Yankees the division title."
- Steve Dorsey, MaxPreps freelance writer
The Little Green Monster shows exactly how the real Green Monster looked after Bucky Dent homered in 1978.
Photo courtesy of Tom Kwiatek, City of Delray Beach
