In 2001, on the 8-acre homestead near Jericho, Vermont, where he and his family live, Patrick M. O’Connor, fan of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, IBM employee, GameChanger, built a wiffle ball field that’s a replica of Fenway Park in Boston.  He called it Little Fenway.

Act on environment, and environment will act on you.  Patrick O’Connor acted on his environment by building a place that expressed his appreciation of a game, a team, a place.  It was an invitation for friends and family to gather.  That environment has, in turn, acted on many, many others, and moved them to take action.  Since its construction, wiffle ball tournaments held at Little Fenway have raised $717,800 for charity, including $215,000 raised for the Travis Roy Foundation in a tournament in August of this year.

The game is wiffle ball.  The change is that, thanks to Patrick M. O’Connor, now you can play it in Fenway.  The result, which could not have been predicted,  is awesome.