In a page-one story Monday, the Boston Globe reported that plans by the Red Sox’ new owners to renovate Fenway Park, rather than build a new baseball stadium, raise questions about whether former owner John Harrington " mischaracterized the financial issues surrounding Fenway. "

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Throughout Harrington’s campaign to win public financing to build a new baseball park in the Fenway neighborhood, activists — most notably the group Save Fenway Park — and city councilors openly questioned the need for a new park. They also questioned the true cost of the project, which Harrington estimated at more than $600 million.

Read all about it in the Phoenix archives at www.bostonphoenix.com.