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New England Sports Park

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New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
New England Sports Park
Phone:
+1 978-388-5788

Hours:
Sunday10am - 8pm
Monday10am - 8pm
Tuesday10am - 8pm
Wednesday10am - 8pm
Thursday10am - 8pm
Friday10am - 8pm
Saturday10am - 8pm


Two popular American sports were invented in New England. Basketball was invented by James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891. Volleyball was invented by William G. Morgan in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1895. Also, the first organized ice hockey game in the United States is widely believed to have been played in Concord, New Hampshire in 1883.The region is famous for its passion for baseball and the Boston Red Sox, as well as for the intense rivalry between the Red Sox and the New York Yankees. On November 1, 1924, the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League became the first NHL franchise to be based in the United States, and the second-oldest surviving major professional sports team in Boston, after the Red Sox. The Bruins' historic rivalry with the Montreal Canadiens for ice hockey fans in the Boston area has, at times, reached the level of intensity of the Yankees – Red Sox rivalry in professional baseball in the region.The New England Patriots football team is based in Foxborough, Massachusetts, halfway between Boston and Providence. In 1999, the Patriots flirted with the idea of moving to Hartford, in what three National Football League franchise owners called the greatest financial deal any NFL owner has ever received. The deal, however, fell through, and the team remained in Foxborough. Both the oldest Major League Baseball professional baseball park still in use, Fenway Park, dating from April 1912, as well as the oldest indoor ice hockey rink still in use worldwide, Matthews Arena, which first opened in 1910 and currently stands on the property of Northeastern University for their collegiate ice hockey teams, are within the Boston city limits.
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