Roses and a framed photograph marked an empty seat in the press box high above home plate at Fenway Park ahead of the first home game of the season for the Boston Red Sox.Friday's game is the first the team will play at Fenway since the death of beloved broadcaster and former player Jerry Remy, who died of cancer in October at the age of 68. NESN also announced the dedication of the broadcast booth in his honor. Remy, a Massachusetts native, played for the Red Sox from 1978 through the end of his major league career in 1986. He played in 710 games across his seven seasons with the Red Sox, batting .286 with 98 stolen bases.He joined NESN in 1988 and called thousands of Red Sox games as a color analyst.In recognition of his career as a player and broadcaster, Remy was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2006. A year later, he was elected as the honorary president of Red Sox Nation.He was also inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2017.Remy had stepped away from his role as the color analyst for New England Sports Network's Red Sox broadcasts on Aug. 4 to undergo treatment for lung cancer. It was the seventh time the Massachusetts native had been diagnosed with cancer following the initial diagnosis in 2008.He died a few days short of his 69th birthday, which would've been on Nov. 8.Because of the MLB's leaguewide commemoration of Jackie Robinson, the home opener is the only game of the season that the Red Sox will not be wearing a black commemorative patch featuring Remy's name and his number, 2.