Carlton Fisk
Carlton Fisk
Carlton Ernest Fisk, nicknamed "Pudge" and "The Commander", is a retired Major League Baseballcatcher and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame . During a 24-year baseball career, he played for both the Boston Red Soxand Chicago White Sox. He was the first player to be unanimously voted American League Rookie of the Year. Fisk is best known for "waving fair" his game-winning home run in the 12th inning of Game 6 of the 1975 World Series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth26 December 1947
CityBellows Falls, VT
CountryUnited States of America
I'm a six-handicap but those two holes scare me every time,
I knew it was gonna go out, ... It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.
The celebratory spirit in Boston is unbelievable, ... But Boston being Boston, the fans aren't really happy unless they have something to complain about, and lately that's been Schilling.
I don't know what's going to happen with these guys down the road when they become eligible for the Hall of Fame, ... But I know a lot of Hall of Famers don't think what they did was right, and I'm one of them.
But when they won the third game I started to believe.
There was no player I enjoyed playing against more than Kirby. He brought such joy to the game. He elevated the play of everyone around him.
The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
A million years went by quick.
It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.
And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.
People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.
But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just prevents me from enjoying it.
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies or play baseball.