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Born in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on December 26, 1947, Carlton Fisk embodies traditional New England values like pride, ruggedness, and individuality. Those virtues were what the late Boston Red Sox public relations director Dick Bresciani was trying to capture in 1997 when he wrote that Fisk was a “native of Vermont” on his original plaque […]

On July 17, 1989, the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox opened a scheduled three-game series at Comiskey Park.1 The Yankees entered the game with a 46-45 record, six games behind the AL East-leading Baltimore Orioles. The White Sox had won four straight but were 36-56, buried deep in the AL West Division cellar, […]

Beginning on March 18, 1981, Comiskey Park was the new ballpark where Carlton Fisk would work to hone his craft. The catcher known as “Pudge” signed on the dotted line of a five-year $3 million contract with the Chicago White Sox. It would seem unlikely that the Boston Red Sox, Fisk’s former team, would have […]