Recently, the celebration took place in The Liberty Hotel, a former city jail converted into a boutique hotel, though more often the festivities occur in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, near the Cultural Center's headquarters.

The sellout streak set a Major League Baseball record ; this was broken by the Boston Red Sox on September 8, 2008, though Boston's Fenway Park is considerably smaller than Progressive Field.

The nearest national air service can be found at Boston's Logan International Airport, though Plum Island Airport, a small general aviation airport, is located in neighboring Newbury.

The FM station was restored to its current position on the FM dial in 1959, and WLYT ( Lite 92. 5 ) in 1983 and gained its current identity as WXRV in 1995, presumably taking the River moniker from the nearby Merrimack River ( though with its wider reach it as often as not uses Boston's Charles River for publicity purposes ).

Boston's Logan Airport lies across Boston Harbor in East Boston, and before the Big Dig the only access from downtown was through the paired Callahan and Sumner tunnels.

Boston's Selectmen, consulting a doctor who claimed that the practice caused many deaths and only spread the infection, forbade Boylston from performing it again.

Ross was also a member of some of Boston's elite inner circles, and is known to have brushed elbows not only with other prominent people associated with the Museum of Fine Arts and the art world, but also with the likes of Louis Brandeis, John Singer Sargent, Joseph Lindon Smith and various members of Boston's most prominent families.

Boston's Chinatown is directly east of the station, and the Chinatown station on the Orange Line, only a block east at Washington Street, took its name from the neighborhood in 1987 ; one platform had earlier been named " Boylston " as well.

His 4 shutouts were tied for 2nd in the league behind only Boston's Roger Clemens.

It was Boston's only burial site for 30 years ( 1630 – 1660 ), and is a stop on the Freedom Trail.

The Comedy Connection, one of Boston's two largest comedy clubs, only recently vacated one of the second-floor spaces, and bars and restaurants occupy space on the basement levels.

Another notable commuter railroad system is Boston's MBTA Commuter Rail, the fifth busiest in the U. S. ( after only New York, New Jersey, and Chicago area systems ) with a daily weekday ridership of 130, 600 as of Q4 2011.

Bar Harbor Airlines decided to make Boston's Logan International Airport its only permanent base, apart from the Bar Harbor airport hub.

Four of Boston's five newspapers backed the compromise, with only the Boston Transcript holding to a consistent anti-union position.

He won only 13 games while appearing in 43 out of Boston's 48 games, which was the only time he missed games as a member of the Bruins.

Boston's Kiss 108 had only started one year prior and was very popular, routinely beating Top-40 AM station WRKO in the ratings.

This was due to the addition of Def Leppard on the playlist, and the move leaves once again WFNX as Boston's only pure alternative rock station.

By July 2012, WBOS became Boston's only alternative rock station following the closure of WFNX.

For a time in the mid-1970s, WBZ-FM was Boston's second most popular top 40 station, trailing only WRKO.

* No. 3 – Joe Torre, Yankees – Dodgers ( the list's only other MLB manager was Boston's Terry Francona, No. 4 )

The Twins nearly won the 1967 pennant, but Chance was outdueled in the season's final game, at Fenway Park, by Boston's Jim Lonborg, chasing Chance in with 5 runs in the sixth despite getting only one ball out of the infield, and the Red Sox emerged as surprise league champions — with Lonborg winning the 1967 AL Cy Young trophy in the process.

Although only 5, 000 watts, WEZE was one of Boston's top-rated radio stations for most of the 1960s, until the beautiful music format made a big splash on the FM dial late in the decade.

James found that Boston's Tom McCarthy was the first manager to make wide use of the hit and run.

For instance during Boston's 29 year run, from the 1979 / 1980 season, when the NHL expanded due to a merger with the World Hockey Association, sixteen of the twenty-one teams would make the playoffs each season until the 1992 playoffs when the league again had expanded to twenty-two teams with the addition of the San Jose Sharks.

A system at Boston's Logan Airport was shut down after failing to make any matches during a two-year test period.

That October, News Corporation purchased WXNE, with plans to make the station Boston's affiliate for its new network, Fox, which had been unable to secure affiliation with WSBK or WLVI.

Pei, the Christian Science Plaza along Huntington Avenue includes a large administration building, a colonnade, a reflecting pool and fountain that together make it one of Boston's most visually recognizable sites and a popular tourist attraction.

However, on September 11, 1886, Roger Connor hit a ball completely out of the Polo Grounds, off Boston's Old Hoss Radbourn, depositing the ball over the right field fence and onto 112th Street.

Under his direction, Boston's first fortification, Castle William was built.

The dome was visible from the air and was used on aeronautical charts as a visual reporting point for aircraft approaching Boston's Logan Airport.

The dome was visible from the air and was used on aeronautical charts as a visual reporting point for aircraft approaching Boston's Logan Airport.

* The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, in which Michelle Tea charts the turbulent adventures in Boston's teenage goth world

As American alternative bands like Sonic Youth, which had grown out of the No Wave scene, and Boston's Pixies started to gain larger audiences, major labels sought to capitalize on the underground market that had been sustained by hardcore punk for years.

In late 1979, Scholz began writing new material, but Boston's former co-manager, Paul Ahern, argued that, according to an agreement Scholz had signed years earlier with Ahern, Ahern owned a percentage of all songs Scholz wrote from that point on.

This high power caused WKBW to blanket the entire eastern U. S. with top 40 music every night, and the station actually had a better signal at night in the western Boston suburbs, than Boston's own top 40 station, WMEX, located at 1510, right next door to WKBW at 1520.

Among the first RCA LPs released was a performance of Gaîté Parisienne by Jacques Offenbach, played by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, which had actually been recorded in Boston's Symphony Hall on June 20, 1947 ; it was given the catalogue number LM-1001.

However, Frazee had stopped paying installments because of a dispute over who owed Boston's share of MLB's settlement with the Federal League.

No one else reached base against Young, who also had three hits and four RBIs in Boston's 8 – 0 win.

His lifelong friend, scholar and social reformer Charles Eliot Norton, described Child's father, a sailmaker, as " one of that class of intelligent and independent mechanics skilled craftsmen, which has had a large share of developing the character of our democratic community, as of old the same class had in Athens or in Florence .” The family was poor, but thanks to the city of Boston's system of free public schools, the boy was educated at the Boston's Grammar and English High Schools.

Dick Rauch also returned to the fold, resuming his position as head coach. Based at Boston's Braves Field, the Bulldogs nonetheless had a two-game swan song in their old stomping grounds, defeating both the Buffalo Bison on October 27 at Minersville Park and the Newark Tornadoes on October 29 at Mitchell Field.

The BRA's dealings with Boston's West End had created an atmosphere of distrust towards urban renewal in Boston, and Charlestown residents opposed the plan by an overwhelming majority.

The rapid and extensive defection of the Congregational churches in Boston and vicinity, under the lead of William Ellery Channing and others in sympathy with him, had excited much anxiety throughout New England ; and in 1826 Beecher was called to Boston's Hanover Church, where he began preaching against the Unitarianism which was then sweeping the area.

He received 21 of 28 1st place mvp votes and 7 2nd place votes for 357 total points to defeat Boston's Nomar Garciaparra, who had 5 1st place votes and 232 points.

The Progressive Party had opposed the public buyout of Boston's streetcar system, which it argued enriched the previous private ownership and was followed by higher fares to city residents.

The fire was finally contained 12 hours later, after it had consumed about of Boston's downtown, 776 buildings and much of the financial district, and caused $ 73. 5 million in damage.

* A horse flu epizootic that spread across North America that year had immobilized Boston's fire department horses.

As Boston's unofficial batting instructor during 1967, Doerr worked with Carl Yastrzemski to convert the seven-year veteran from an opposite-field " doubles " hitter who had never before hit more than 20 homers in a season to a pull-hitting slugger who belted 44 home runs and won the Triple Crown and AL Most Valuable Player award that season.

' The Only Way: 1995-1999 ', a DVD / video documentary, had its release celebrated a year later with Ten Yard Fight taking the stage, unannounced, at " Edge Day Two ," coinciding with the final performance of Boston's In My Eyes.

He was the son of Italian immigrants Vito and Filomena ( Benedetto ), who had come from Abruzzo to Boston's North End in 1905 ; his father was in the construction business.

WHDH stayed with CBS until January 2, 1995, when WBZ-TV took over the CBS affiliation as part of a group deal between CBS and WBZ's owner, Group W. Fox considered an affiliation deal with WHDH, but ultimately chose to acquire its existing affiliate, WFXT, and WHDH became Boston's NBC affiliate, replacing WBZ ( which had been with the network for 47 years ).