Sponsor this Page On January 8, 1916 — James E. Gaffney sells the Boston Braves for $500,000 to Harvard University football coach Percy Haughton, and businessman Arthur Chamberlin Wise, who will raise $600,000 to build Fenway Park. The former owner, a Tammany Hall alderman and construction contracto
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