The poor kid would post the ten and the whole crowd would groan. In 1975, the late NBC director Harry Coyle put a camera inside the left field wall. Legend has it that a rat appeared, which froze the camera operator and resulted in the best baseball video clip of all time. The unattended camera was focused on home plate and caught Carlton Fisk waving his arms, willing his fly ball into fair territory. His drive caromed off the left field foul pole, and NBC was rewarded with a clip capturing what TV Guide in 1998 ranked as the greatest moment in the history of sports television.
T here are plenty of other signatures inside the wall.
John Stone and John Giuliotti of the ground crew signed while working the 1986 World Series. To the right of their signatures is the autograph of Jimmy Piersall , a master defensive outfielder and baserunner for the Sox in the 1950s. He became famous when his biography, Fear Strikes Out, was made into a major motion picture, starring Anthony Perkins, of Psycho fame. There s even graffiti from the turbulent 60s Free Angela and Stop the War. According to Joe Mooney, the Sox groundskeeper, the Wall is a fine conductor of heat.