On June 25, 2012, Peter Meade got to do what most Boston fans only dream of doing: He filled in as the public address announcer at Fenway Park as the Red Sox took on the Toronto Blue Jays – a game in which Big Papi hit two dingers.

 Documents obtained under the Public Records Law suggest Meade was worried the guest announcing gig could be a conflict of interest. He at the time was the director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which was gearing up to renegotiate a deal with the Red Sox allowing the team to close off the portion of Yawkey Way abutting Fenway Park for use as a food and entertainment court and to maintain the storied Green Monster seats up in the air space over Lansdowne Street.

Meade personally hired Boston attorney Thomas Hoopes to review the situation. After receiving Hoopes’s opinion, Meade concluded that serving as a Red Sox guest announcer for the day would not be a violation of the state’s conflict of interest laws. In a June 22, 2012, letter to then-BRA chairman Clarence Jones, he said there was no conflict of interest because he would not be accepting the $50 stipend paid by the team and because “my role as director of the BRA is not inherently incompatible with the role of the Red Sox public address announcer.”

Meade added: “This public disclosure and the public nature of the role of the announcer eliminates any conflict of interest law issues that may otherwise arise by my participation in what may be considered by some as a ceremonial privilege by virtue of my position as BRA director.”

Meade went on to call the game, which the Red Sox lost to the Jays by a score of 9-6. A little over a year later the BRA unveiled a new deal with the Red Sox giving the team access in perpetuity on select days to Yawkey Way and the air rights over Lansdowne Street for $7.3 million in payments spread out over 10 years. Those rights in the past have generated more than $6 million a year in revenue for the team.

The new deal gives the Red Sox access to Yawkey Way not just on game days but whenever an event takes place at Fenway Park. It also blesses a pedestrian bridge between the Lansdowne Street Garage owned by an affiliate of the Red Sox and Fenway, allows the Sox to install new neon and other signage in and around the park, and requires the BRA to inform the team of any development proposals within 1,500 feet of the park and meet with the owners “to discuss potential development in the neighborhood” over a period of 10 years.

Samuel Tyler, president of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, a business-backed group that monitors city finances and policies, said some aspects of the deal puzzled him. “I could see the interest of the Red Sox to have a pedestrian bridge, but why the BRA would just give that up without even having seen plans makes no sense to me,” he said.

The Red Sox-BRA deal was negotiated primarily by Meade and his chief of staff, James Tierney, who met frequently with Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino and the team’s special counsel, David Friedman, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.

The deal was approved by the BRA in September 2013 despite appeals from state Inspector General Glenn Cunha that approval be delayed until he had the opportunity to fully review it. Cunha declined comment for this story.

Gregory Sullivan, Cunha’s predecessor who is now working as the research director at the Pioneer Institute, a conservative think tank, said he thinks Meade’s guest announcing stint with the Red Sox violated state ethics laws.

Sullivan said the laws bar public officials from knowingly accepting anything of substantial value, which has been defined as anything worth more than $50. Although Meade refused the $50 stipend offered by the Red Sox, Sullivan said he believes the true value of the guest announcing job was significantly more.

 “Being allowed to announce a game from the booth behind home plate with its wonderful vantage point would be considered by most Red Sox fans to be something of substantial value and a dream come true,” he said. The former inspector general, who believes the Red-Sox BRA deal was a bad one for the city and should be investigated by Attorney General Martha Coakley, said Meade should have sought out an opinion from the State Ethics Commission.

Meade’s letter and a letter written by his attorney to him were obtained from the BRA under the state’s Public Records Law. Meade and the Red Sox could not be reached for comment.