Read Your Way To Fenway FAQs

  • General Questions

    Not everyone wins the Read Your Way to Fenway contest, but we encourage you to apply again next year if you do not win this year.

    Read Your Way to Fenway is open to all children between the ages of 5 and 17.

    No. Tickets are for the Boston Red Sox game on Saturday, August 16 at 4:10 p.m. and we are not able to provide alternate dates.

    Each winner receives 3 tickets, one for the winner, one for an adult, and one for a friend, sibling or family member. The Red Sox do not sell extra tickets to the public for this particular game.

    If a child is not able to write their personal essay for any reason, they can tell their essay to an adult or a friend. The essay must be in your child’s own words.

    Yes, audiobooks count. Reading comes in many forms. Youth can listen to an audiobook, read out loud to a friend or family member (or be read aloud to), or read silently. Youth can read picture books, chapter books, graphic novels, magazines, or nonfiction — everything counts. Just be sure to tell us what you read and what you thought about it.

    The Read Your Way to Fenway contest is only open to children ages 5 to 17. As soon as your child turns 5, we encourage them to enter.

    Every winner receives 3 tickets — one for the winner, one for an adult, and one for a friend, sibling, or family member of any age. Please note that all winners must be accompanied by an adult, and that children aged 0-2 do not require a ticket.