Video: '100 Years Red Sox' (Fenway opens at 1:18)

(Saturday, April 20, 1912) — Boston’s Fenway Park hosted its first professional baseball game today with then-mayor John F. Fitzgerald, the grandfather of future U.S. President John F. Kennedy, throwing out the first pitch and Boston defeating future arch-rivals the New York Highlanders, renamed the Yankees the next year, 7-6 in 11 innings.

On the same day, Navin Field (named Tiger Stadium in 1961) opened in Detroit. The Tigers beat the Cleveland Naps 6-5 in 11 innings.

Video: 'Rise and Fall: Detroit's Tiger Stadium Part I of II' (click here for part 2)