During a conference on the mound, left fielder Manny Ramirez ducks into the Green Monster and returns to the field just as Wade Miller delivers a pitch. Later, Ramirez would say that while behind the wall he "peed in a cup."

• Editor's note: What follows is ESPNBoston.com's ranking of the 100 Greatest Moments in Fenway Park History. We convened a panel of nine experts to generate our ranking. You can rank your own top 25 HERE.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are the first major musical act to play Fenway since the 1973 Newport Jazz Festival.

Bill Buckner hits a long fly to right field and as Angels outfielder Claudell Washington tries to make a play on it, he flips over the short fence and falls into the stands. The ball hits the wall and bounces away, allowing the hobbled Buckner to limp around the bases for one of baseball's most unlikely inside-the-park home runs, the last homer of his career.

Jacoby Ellsbury pulls off a straight steal of home with Andy Pettitte on the mound, sparking the Red Sox to a 4-1 win over the Yankees.

The Red Sox beat Harvard 2-0 in cold, wet and snowy conditions in an exhibition that was the first game played at Fenway Park.

New Red Sox owners announce their determination to remain at Fenway Park, adding around 5,000 seats. "I love Fenway -- I don't think you can replicate the magic you have here. It would never feel like Fenway," Sox majority owner John W. Henry said.

The Sox complete a three-game sweep of the Yankees with an 11-1 win that features Carl Yastrzemski hitting a home run that strikes the facing of the right-field roof, the only ball to reach that spot. The Sox hit a major league record 16 home runs in the series.

The Red Sox hit back-to-back-to-back-to-back HRs -- by Manny Ramirez, J.D. Drew, Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek -- against the Yankees on Sunday Night Baseball.

In a heated Game 3 of the ALCS, Manny Ramirez set off a bench-clearing incident with his reaction to a Roger Clemens fastball that was high, but over the plate. Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer charged at Pedro Martinez, who grabbed the 72-year-old by the head and tossed him to the ground. Both later regretted the incident.

Luis Tiant outduels Jim Palmer with a five-hit shutout as the Sox beat the second-place Orioles 2-0 in a game that secures their hold atop the AL East.

Jim Rice picks up a 4-year-old boy struck in the head by a foul ball and rushes him through the dugout to a waiting ambulance. Rice's actions helped save the boy's life.

Bill Buckner, returning to the Sox for the first time since 1987, receives a long standing ovation at the home opener.

The Monster seats on top of the fabled Green Monster debut.

Manny Ramirez hits a home run off the Coke bottle that would have travelled an estimated 501 feet, or one foot less than the 502-foot "red seat" home run by Ted Williams considered longest in club history.

In the first hockey game played at Fenway, Marco Sturm scores in overtime to give the Boston Bruins a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers in the NHL's Winter Classic.

Back in baseball after an absence of nearly four years, Tony Conigliaro goes 1-for-4 as the Sox DH in a 5-2 Opening Day win over the Brewers, a game that is Hank Aaron's American League debut.

Nomar Garciaparra hits a grand slam in the first, a two-run home run in the third and another grand slam in the fifth, finishing with 10 RBIs in a 12-4 win over the Mariners. Nomar is the first Sox player to hit two grand slams in a game since Jim Tabor in 1939.

Fresh off a train ride from Baltimore, Babe Ruth wins his first major league start, beating Cleveland 4-3.

Defying predictions that no one would ever hit a ball over the left-field wall, first baseman Hugh "Corns" Bradley, a Worcester native, does just that in only the fifth game played at Fenway.

Ken Griffey Jr. wins the Home Run Derby, but Mark McGwire steals the show, hitting 13 bombs in the first round, many reaching spots never before seen.

Dustin Pedroia becomes the first rookie to hit a leadoff home run in the World Series as the Sox batter the Rockies 13-1 in Game 1.

The Sox, down 7-2 after eight to Seattle's Randy Johnson, score seven runs in the bottom of the ninth, a rally capped by Mo Vaughn's walk-off grand slam.

Curt Schilling, Hideki Okajima and Jonathan Papelbon combine for a five-hitter as the Red Sox beat the Rockies 2-1 to take a 2-0 World Series lead.

Babe Ruth pitches the Sox to a 6-1 win over the A's to capture the American League pennant in a war-shortened season.

In his last game before leaving for his second tour of duty in the U.S. Marines, this time in Korea, Ted Williams hits a game-winning, two-run home run to beat the Tigers. The Sox had dubbed the occasion "Ted Williams Day."

Derek Lowe throws a no-hitter, the first at Fenway since Dave Morehead in 1965, to beat the Devil Rays 10-0.

Luis Tiant two-hits the Blue Jays as the Sox win 5-0, which coupled with the Yankees' loss to the Indians (thank you, Rick Waits) forces a one-game playoff for the AL East title. The Sox, of course, lost that playoff thanks to Bucky Dent's unlikely homer.

David Ortiz breaks Jimmie Foxx's 68-year-old team record with his 51st home run, then adds No. 52 for good measure in a 6-0 win over the Twins.

Trot Nixon's 12th-inning homer to straight-away center wins Game 3 of the ALDS against the A's. The Sox go on to win the next two and the series.

Clay Buchholz, in only his second major league start, throws a no-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles, striking out the final batter of the game, Nick Markakis.

The Sox blow the game open late and beat the Indians 11-2 to win the AL pennant, with Coco Crisp catching the final out while crashing into the wall in center field. The win completes Boston's rally from a 3-1 series deficit.

In his seventh game as Red Sox manager, Joe Morgan pinch-hits for Jim Rice with Spike Owen, Rice confronting Morgan in the dugout. The Sox would beat the Twins 9-7 on a three-run walk-off homer by Todd Benzinger, part of the team's record 24-game home winning streak that marked "Morgan Magic."

In a sun-splashed home opener, the Red Sox receive their World Series champion rings and the banner is raised in center field by a number of former and present players, celebrating the team's first Series win in 86 years.

Jon Lester pitches the first no-hitter by a Red Sox left-hander since Mel Parnell in 1956, striking out Alberto Callaspo for the final out of a 7-0 win over Kansas City. Jason Varitek ties a major league record by catching his fourth no-hitter.

Mel Parnell, in his final season, pitches the first Red Sox no-hitter since 1923, beating the White Sox 4-0 before a crowd of 14,542.

Manny Ramirez blasts a three-run walk-off homer over the Green Monster to give the Sox a 6-3 win over the Angels in Game 2 of the ALDS.

In his 3,308th and final game, Carl Yastrzemski plays left field and goes 1-for-3 in a 3-1 win over Cleveland. At the end of the game, he takes a lap around the field to say goodbye to the fans, repeating a similar lap when he was honored the day before.

In one of the most anticipated matchups in Fenway history, Pedro Martinez faces Roger Clemens and the Yankees in Game 3 of the ALCS. The rabid Fenway fans razz Clemens mercilessly and he is shelled in a 13-1 Red Sox win that includes two home runs by Nomar Garciaparra.

Pumpsie Green becomes the first black Red Sox player to appear in Fenway Park. The Red Sox are the last team to integrate, more than 14 years after working out Jackie Robinson and two other black players at Fenway. They never followed up on the workouts.

In his first at-bat at Fenway, 19-year-old Tony Conigliaro hits a home run to help the Sox to a 4-1 Opening Day win over the White Sox.

Behind Roger Clemens, who allows one run in seven innings, the Red Sox beat the Angels 8-1 to win the ALCS and cap a remarkable comeback sparked by Dave Henderson's home run in Game 5 at Anaheim.

The Red Sox beat the Cardinals 11-9 in Game 1 of the World Series, with Mark Bellhorn's two-run homer in the eighth providing the winning runs.

Red Sox play their first major league game at Fenway Park and despite committing seven errors, rally to beat the Yankees 7-6 in 11 innings. Tris Speaker knocked in the winning run.

In the final game of the season, Tom Brunansky makes a diving catch down the right-field line with runners on first and second for the last out of a 3-1 win over the White Sox that clinched the AL East title. Closer Jeff Reardon (left) was on the mound.

After going hitless in his previous 12 at-bats, Carl Yastrzemski grounds a single past Yankees second baseman Willie Randolph for his 3,000th career hit.

Ted Williams hits what is regarded the longest home run in Sox history, a drive estimated at 502 feet commemorated by a red seat in the right-field bleachers. As legend has it, the ball struck the spectator in that seat, Joseph Bouchard, a 56-year-old construction engineer from Albany, N.Y., in the head. He displayed a hole in his straw hat after the game.

Tony Conigliaro, playing for the first time since his beaning 18 months earlier, hits a two-run home run in the 10th, then walks and scores the winning run in the 12th to beat the Orioles in Baltimore. Less than a week later, on April 14, he re-debuted at Fenway and singled in what proved to be the winning run in a 5-3 Red Sox win. (Correction: We originally incorrectly identified the April 8 game as having taken place at Fenway).

Jason Varitek confronts the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, shoving his mitt in his face, to set off a brawl before Bill Mueller's walk-off home run off Mariano Rivera gave the Sox an 11-10 comeback win that is seen as a flashpoint in the World Series season.

Curt Schilling allows one run and four hits over six innings after having the tendon in his ankle repaired for the second time in the postseason, leading the Sox to a 6-2 win and 2-0 World Series lead.

Luis Tiant pitches a five-hit shutout, singles and has an adventurous trip around the bases as the Red Sox beat the Reds 6-0 in Game 1 of the World Series. Tiant's parents, who had flown in from Cuba, watched from the stands.

Roger Clemens sets a major league record by striking out 20 batters in a 3-1 win over the Seattle Mariners. Three Mariners batters -- Phil Bradley, Dave Henderson and Ivan Calderon -- combined for 10 at-bats and struck out in all 10. Bradley's strikeout in the ninth was No. 20.

In the 10th inning of Game 8 of the 1912 World Series (one of the games ended in a tie), with the Giants nursing a 2-1 lead, Giants center fielder Fred Snodgrass drops Clyde Engle's lazy fly ball in what would later be termed the "Thirty-Thousand Dollar Muff." The Red Sox rally to tie the game and then win it when Larry Gardner knocks in Steve Yerkes with a sacrifice fly. The win secures the team's second title in the first year of Fenway's existence.

The Sox beat the Yankees 5-4 in a nearly 6-hour, 14-inning ALCS Game 5 marathon that ends with a second straight walk-off hit by David Ortiz and sends the series back to New York.

Ted Williams homers on what turns out to be the final at-bat of his career. The moment was immortalized in John Updike's "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu."

After Ted Williams is surrounded by All-Stars on the Fenway infield, Pedro Martinez strikes out five of the six National League stars he faces -- Barry Larkin, Larry Walker, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Jeff Bagwell -- and is named the game's MVP.

Facing elimination against the Yankees in Game 4 of the ALCS, the Red Sox rallied against Mariano Rivera in the ninth. After Kevin Millar walked, pinch runner Dave Roberts stole second before being singled home by Bill Mueller with the tying run, forcing extra innings.

Just after the 5-hour mark in Game 4 of the ALCS, David Ortiz sent the Fenway Faithful into a frenzy with a 12th-inning homer, saving the Red Sox from elimination and kicking off the biggest comeback in baseball history.

"Impossible Dream" Red Sox clinch the pennant after beating the Twins 5-3 then waiting for Detroit to lose to the Los Angeles Angels. Carl Yastrzemski goes 4-for-4 while Jim Lonborg pitches a complete game and has two hits, including a bunt single that keys a five-run rally in the sixth.

The first World Series night game played at Fenway Park is regarded as one of the best games ever played. Carlton Fisk's 12th-inning home run gave the Red Sox a 7-6 win over Cincinnati's Big Red Machine in Game 6 of the World Series. The game included many other memorable moments, notably Bernie Carbo's game-tying, pinch-hit three-run homer in the eighth.