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An Ode to Fenway’s Coke Bottles

They were 25 feet tall and they were gorgeous. You could see them from the Massachusetts Turnpike, from Lansdowne Street, and from Section 9, Row 12, Seats 1 and 2. You could probably see them from the top of Mount Wachusett if you had a telephoto lens.

They were three giant fiberglass Coke bottles and they were strapped to a light tower that rises from the top of Fenway Park’s historic Green Monster.

That lede you just read is the opening of a Dan Shaugnassey column from March of 1997 when the soda giant Coca-Cola first partnered with the Boston Red Sox for new signage atop the wall in left field, with some revisions where I took artistic liberties.