BU Red Sox Green Team

Since 2008, Boston University’s Dean of Students Office has been teaming up with the Boston Red Sox to help with their sustainability promotions and to collect recyclables throughout the ballpark on game days.

What does the Green Team do?

Green Team volunteers must report to the park an hour before one of our assigned games begins to prepare for their duties during the game.  During the game, Green Team volunteers will walk up and down the aisles between innings to collect recyclable containers (water and soda bottles and empty beer cups.)

What do I get for being a Green Team member?

Green Team members will be given a t-shirt and pass that must be worn during the game, as well as being entered into the Red Sox run incentive system to win game tickets!

How can I sign up?

For the 2011 season, the Red Sox have changed the sign-up structure. BU will have 1-2 games per month. You are eligible to sign up for other games through the Red Sox.

If you would like to sign up for the two BU April games (11th and 17th), please email your name, email address and phone number to katcorn@bu.edu by three days prior to game day.

If you would like to sign up for any other game, you will need to send your name, email address, phone number and the games you would like to volunteer at to greenteam@redsox.com three days prior to game day.

You have to report to Fenway Park one hour before game time – the Red Sox will no longer allow for late comers. If you need to cancel your involvement, you will need to do so three days prior to game day. You will receive more information when you sign up.

Questions? Comments?

Please e-mail Katherine Hasenauer Cornetta, Assistant to the Dean of Students, or call our office at 617.353.4126.

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Green Team Do’s and Don’ts

The Green Team works with other staff at the ballpark as a Fenway Team to make the game day experience of each fan the best it can be.  Green Team members are on duty as Fenway volunteers from the time they arrive at the ballpark until the time they leave.  While on shift, Green Team members must be professional at all times.

DO LIST

Arrive to Fenway on time with a good attitude.
Wear your ID badge and T-Shirt at all times.
Perform duties to the best of your ability.
Be respectful to every fan and fellow Fenway Park staffer.

DON’T LIST

Ask players for autographs.
Walk down on the field before, during, or after the game.
Chase after or pick up baseballs.
Consume or be under the influence of alcoholic beverages or illegal substances at the ballpark before, during, or after the game.
Engage in fighting, insubordination, harassment, theft, sleeping on the job, or horseplay.
Admit non-ticketed fans into the ballpark.
Escort fans into any seats or areas of the ballpark for which they are not properly ticketed.
Enter restricted areas unless authorized.
Use profanity on ballpark grounds.
Never be discourteous to a fan or a fellow employee.

Photo above: BU Red Sox Green Team volunteer at Fenway Park in May 2009. Photo credit: Susan Lebovits.