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 Fisk is the catcher ... Crying over departed friends and attending family. Agitating Bud Selig and the brass by paying tribute to Marvin Miller and Don Fehr, even bringing up collusion.

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 ...