When asked to describe Carlton Fisk, Buddy Bell was one of several contemporaries who gave the same answer: "He was a man." A man. Big, strong, tough, durable, stubborn. Catcher was the only ...

Carlton Ernest "Pudge" Fisk (born December 26, 1947 in Bellows Falls, Vermont) is a former Major League Baseball catcher who played for 24 years with both the Boston Red Sox (1969, 1971-1980 ...

Twenty-five years later, and there were Carlton Fisk, Tony Perez and Sparky Anderson, sitting there on a Hall of Fame Sunday -- their Hall of Fame Sunday -- still debating who called the pitch ...

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