A group of campers from Sportsmen’s Tennis and Enrichment Center visited Fenway Park last Friday (July 24) and enjoyed lunch on the Green Monster and a tour of the facilities, thanks to Bank of America and the Red Sox. The group trip was planned after the tennis facilty in Dorchester was vandalized on July 17— leaving some of the space damaged and unusable.
The vandals broke into a storage shed and used paint and other supplies to deface the courts, with profanity spray painted on the rear door, and ransacking the adjoining garden.
“We had a tough week last week when our camp was vandalized,” said Camille Clark, the deputy director at Sportsmen’s. “We have almost 200 campers from three different camps over the course of the summer, so to have to keep our kids inside with limited space, it was really hard on us.”
Members of the Transit Police stepped up to help repaint the defaced courts. The invitation to join the Red Sox and Bank of America for lunch, free Red Sox caps and a tour of Fenway came on Monday.
“We know how much Sportsmen’s Tennis and Enrichment Center means to our community and to the families of the young campers who attend each week,” said Miceal Chamberlain, the Massachusetts President for Bank of America “So of course, we were very disappointed to hear about the vandalism that took place at the center in Dorchester earlier this week. We were delighted to arrange the opportunity at Fenway Park, and our teammates enjoyed spending time with these fantastic campers!”
