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 ...

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 ...

He debuted in September ‘80 and caught for the Sox from 1980-90, becoming their every day catcher after the Carlton Fisk free agency snafu in ‘81. Gedman finished runner-up to Yankees pitcher ...