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Step into his office -- Fenway ParkThis forum post is dated 04/17/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. Delaware - Hourly Jobs
| Step into his office -- Fenway Park A year-round tour guide at Fenway Park, Ed Carpenter hits fastballs with his facts and home runs with his humor. Not to mention the curves and spins. Whether he's recalling the longest measurable home run ever hit in the ballpark (about 502 feet, Ted Williams, June 9, 1946), happily recalling a Yankee loss or describing one of the most popular ballpark jobs (a waiting list of several hundred to be a scoreboard operator), he obviously loves what he is doing. "He's a natural -- he has such a memory for detail and you can tell he's really lived this game, " Diane Smith, a school curriculum director from Oregon, said on a recent tour with her husband, Fred. "That's what makes him so charming." Last July, Carpenter, 64, who lives in Stoughton, retired after a 35-year career in college sports information and public relations. For 29 years, he'd handled athletic public relations at Boston University. While ready to leave the constant nighttime and weekend hours behind, he still needed to stay busy and "have a purpose." A lifelong Red Sox fan, he's found his dream retirement job. "I have Fenway Park as my office and I share my love of the Red Sox with people from all over the world every day, " he says. "Whether sixth-graders or seniors, when I get the feeling that they have the same type of passion and feel as happy as I do to be there -- I can't imagine anything better." When Carpenter was 6 and living in Brookline, his father took him to a Red Sox night game in 1949. "I can X;b>...X;/b> |
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