Home Run

(Correction: Because of a reporting error, the name of interior designer Tony Cappoli was misspelled in a Globe magazine story Sunday about the bedroom of Manny Ramirez Jr.)

IT IS NIGHTTIME AT FENWAY Park. The Sox are taking on the Yankees. Johnny Damon has just hit a single, Manny Ramirez races to second, and David Ortiz is approaching home. As the bright Kenmore CITGO sign beckons in the background, you don't hear the roar of the crowd, but the excited voice of 2-year-old Manny Ramirez Jr.

"Go, Papi! Go, Papi!" shouts the energetic boy, cheering for his dad, his tiny Red Sox cap askew on his bobbing head.

The crowd is silent, because this game of fantasy baseball is not at Fen- way Park. It is 37 floors up, inside the Ramirez penthouse suite, where Manny Sr. and wife Juliana have transformed their son's bedroom into a whimsical version of the ballpark.

"Every time he goes to the stadium," says the Red Sox outfielder, tossing a baseball to his son in the middle of the bedroom, "he gets so excited." So, while Manny Jr.'s bedroom in the family's home in Pembroke Pines, Florida, is a typical kid's room, his parents wanted his room in Boston to be special. "So we made it to look like Fenway," says Ramirez.

To bring the ballpark to their Back Bay condominium at The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton Towers, they hired South End interior designer Tony Coppoli, who spent two months with his team of artists and craftsmen converting the former guest bedroom into Fenway fun.

Coppoli didn't have to look too far for inspiration. The room has an arresting view of the real CITGO sign and Fenway Park as well as the Back Bay and the Charles River.

To re-create Fenway, Coppoli and his collaborators first took photographs of the landmark ballpark - from the Green Monster and sections of the field to the locker room. Even street signs around the neighborhood were included.

"Let's face it, it's for Manny Ramirez," says Coppoli. "They wanted something spectacular. It was a little intimidating, because he's such a baseball great."

To give it that Fenway feel, Coppoli turned the twin beds into his version of the Green Monster. Working with custom cabinetmaker James Dodd of Dodd Woodworking in Mendon, Coppoli created built-in platform beds that are a fanciful model of the famous wall, finished with Benjamin Moore's Green Monster paint and authentic baseball netting.

"It took two weeks just to install it," says Coppoli.

A lively mural of the ball field, painted by artist Jane O'Hara of Boston, decorates one wall. Beyond the field is a vista of Boston's night skyline, which, of course, includes "Go Sox" in lights on the side of the Prudential building.

It's easy for even a casual fan to figure out who's who on the field, but Manny Jr. will happily point out his dad and his teammates if you ask him. As Coppoli notes, the mural is so detailed "you can even see the fans with signs cheering on Manny."

Twinkling stars dot the ceiling. Images of the bright lights used to illuminate the field add their own vibrancy.

By the room's doorway, there's a life-size painting of a boy holding a sign that reads "Manny." Corners of the room are marked by painted replicas of familiar Fenway signs: Lansdowne Street, Brookline Avenue, and "Fenway Gate B entrance on Van Ness St."

Three lockers are painted on another wall. One belongs to Ramirez - you can see his jersey inside, and, on closer inspection, you can spot the artist's rendering of a family photo, with Manny Sr. and Juliana, Manny Jr., and Manny Sr.'s 10-year-old son, Manuel.

It's apparent the youngest Ramirez loves his own little Fenway. As the toddler runs around the room, hitting a ball with a small blue bat, a mini-Manny in his own mini-Fenway, Manny Sr., who is from the Dominican Republic, and Juliana, who is from Brazil, banter back and forth in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

"He loves the stadium so much," says Juliana, cuddling the boy, who is sporting a Red Sox jersey. "He loves to play in the room like his Papi. He wants to be just like his father. He does everything Daddy does."

Johnny Diaz is a member of the Globe staff. He can be reached at jodiaz@globe.com.