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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Atlanta Braves minor league manager Luis Salazar is hit in the face by a foul ball while standing in the dugout during a spring training game. Salazar collapses and is transported by helicopter to a ...

344. Six previous Red Sox players were chosen as AL Rookie of the Year. One of them, Carlton Fisk, is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Walt Dropo, 1950: The first baseman won had a monster season at ...

Hayden’s 2021 piece chronicling "How a comedy of errors cost the Red Sox Carlton Fisk and Fred Lynn in the 1980-81 offseason" won first place in the New England Newspaper & Press Association's ...