Herriman • Chris Watson’s family moved to a Boston suburb when he was about 7 years old. He became a big Red Sox fan.

It was when catcher Carlton Fisk was in the prime of his career. Watson even had baseball cards of Fisk when he was a kid.

“So, kind of cool that I end up living here,” he said Tuesday from his doorstep on Fisk Drive in Herriman, some 2,400 miles from where he spent his youth.

Watson’s neighborhood — known as Copper Fields — unexpectedly went viral last weekend on X when a user pointed to the oddity of a Utah subdivision having its streets named after famous Sox players.

Watson moved to Utah for college and stuck around why so many do: the outdoor access. When he was looking for a new place to build a home back in 2024, he immediately noticed the street names in the neighborhood developed by EDGEhomes.

“It just worked out that this is the street that we wanted,” he said, wearing a navy blue Red Sox cap.

The neighborhood also has streets named for older players like Wade Boggs and the late Jerry Remy, and newer ones like Dustin Pedroia and Nathan Eovaldi.

This corner of suburban Utah caught so much attention — more than 25,000 likes — the official Major League Baseball account even got in on the action when posting highlights of the Red Sox game on Sunday, joking that “Durbin Drive” (after Caleb Durbin) and “Tolle Terrace” (a nod to Payton Tolle) were coming soon to another Utah neighborhood.

The man who named the streets is unsurprisingly also a Red Sox fan: EDGEhomes project manager and Utah native Brandon Parr.

“I fell in love with Boggs and then started following the Red Sox,” Parr said. “Now, here we are 40 years later, still a diehard fan.”

When he’s leading the buildout of a new development, Parr gets to pick the street names and often tries to keep them cohesive. He also has to pick names that haven’t been used elsewhere in Salt Lake County, which is how Eovaldi becomes useful.

In another neighborhood near Mountain Ridge High School, Parr contributed three other Red Sox-related names: Devers Drive, Story Lane and Hanley Lane. That same area also has a bunch of roads named for Utah mountains like Notch Peak and Ostler Peak.

To get the asphalt formally labeled, developers like EDGEhomes submit names to city officials alongside the proposed map of the subdivision. Unless there are any issues, the local government approves those names and kicks it over to Salt Lake County, which verifies that the streets names are unique before formalizing the map.

Copper Fields isn’t the only Herriman neighborhood with sports-themes streets, either.

“There’s a collection of soccer player streets,” Herriman spokesperson Jonathan LaFollette said of a neighborhood next to Real Salt Lake’s academy and practice facilities. “Off the top of my head, there’s a Messi, a Pelé, a Ronaldo.”

Watson, the Fisk Drive resident, loves his neighborhood on the other side of town.

His only gripe: there’s no street named for David Ortiz, the legendary slugger.

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