Fenway grass through the years

Checking out some photos last night, it's easy to see how dramatically the infield has changed at Fenway over its 99 years. Since I'm currently working on the 1934-1939 version (of which pictures are quite rare, at least until Sports Temples of Boston is relaunched), that's been my focus. Luckily, Baseball Fever's Ballparks, Stadiums & Green Diamonds forum has some photos from exactly this era (thank you, Mario Mendoza...HOF Lock and others):




We're quite lucky to have this photo, showing not only the beautifully weird dip in dirt infield, but also the soon-to-be-filled RF bullpen area.



From a similar time span, the CF/RF area with an extremely small warning track, compared to the ~20' current track. Also notice how, outside of the monster which was often painted for the different ads, the walls look completely beaten up.

From earlier on, pre-renovation:


No warning track, beaten up infield, Duffy's Cliff in LF supporting the wall, and less of a dip in the 2b/CF dirt than a wave pattern.

I'll need to scale back the warning track a bit and add boxes directly behind the plate, but the working model of the grass: