It's an impossibility to do much fence-busting up there; all the fences are concrete walls.

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Circa summer 1915, explaining his failure to put up power numbers befitting his "Fence-Buster" nickname at the Major League level; as quoted in "Balls and Strikes; Bodie's Humor Surely Saved Him" by Billy Evans, Harper's Weekly (September 25, 1915), p. 309

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