November 6, 2008 Fixing up Fenway Play video

(NECN: Josh Brogadir, Boston, Mass.) - Another season, another renovation at America's most beloved ballpark. Red Sox officials say renovations to Fenway Park started just 24 h ours after Jed Lowrie grounded out in St. Petersburg to end the 2008 season. They will continue through mid-March, and fans will see changes on Opening Day.

On a rainy Thursday in November, the mindset at Fenway Park may not be on playing baseball, but the Red Sox are renovating - not the lineup or the pitching staff, but parts of the ballpark that are getting re-done.

"We're in the 8th inning of a 9 inning game when it comes to the renovation and improvements to Fenway Park," says Larry Lucchino.

Call in the set-up man for Inning 8 - one of a few major highlights is up in right field - where the team will be setting in 373 new tickets per game - a combination of new seats plus standing room - cutting back some old seats from the right field roof box.

Janet: "It won't be a radical difference from what we've seen, but that area when it was installed in the 1980s had a stamp on the drawings that said temporary. It's been there for 25 years it seemed time to make it permanent."

Another target: the lower seating bowl behind and to the sides of home plate.

It's easy to see that this concrete needs to be repaired, it will also be waterproofed. It's been here since 1912. Now seats have been removed there; seats that look just like these wooden chairbacks. They've

Team officials say those are the oldest and only wooden seats still currently in use in major league baseball.

The 1970s red field box and loge box seats that were under these tarps - are already gone - and will be replaced.

"They were sold relatively quickly to people as mementos of Fenway Park or as actual seats I guess to be used in their home or basement," says Lucchino.

Another project - replacing the roof over the Jeano building which houses the Red Sox front office. It was built in 1914 - just 2 years after the park itself was completed.

Team officials would not disclose the cost of these improvements, but said all was being paid for by the Red Sox - not the taxpayers.

This round of renovations started in 2002 when John Henry and Tom Werner bought the team, perhaps the best known change were the seats put in above the Green Monster in 2003. This latest seating section above right field is the last upper level seating section to be completed.

Red Sox president Larry Lucchino says not much will go on in the extra innings, just some smaller, discreet improvements, following nine years of major renovations.