Edited sentence: (Oddly, this distance has never been posted on the wall.)  The corner itself has the shortest wall in the majors, only three feet high.Despite this short poke, home runs in this area are relatively rare, because the wall curves away sharply.However, it should be noted that the Boston Red Sox had altered Fenway Park in 1940 (to benefit Ted Williams), by adding bullpens in right-center, shortening the distance from 400 to 380 feet, and a few more rows of seats in the right field corner, shortening the distance from 334 to a measly 302 feet.The "Pesky Pole" was named after Johnny Pesky, who hit five of his seventeen career home runs there; yet no one ever accused Pesky of hitting a "Chinese home run