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...Fans constantly yelled requests to the players. "Hey Yaz, look over here," one Instamatic-toting woman yelled. Carl Yastrzemski obliged by looking into the stands for a second and then resuming his warmpup. "Hey Pudgie, I came all the way down to see you," a Bosox partisan screamed to Carlton Fisk. Fisk trotted by and said, "I gotta warm...
...baseball was livelier in Babe Ruth's day than in Carlton Fisk...
...long Ken Griffey fly, at least three Red Sox feats outdid Hollywood. There were Pinch Hitter Bernie Carbo's eighth-inning, three-run homer that tied the game; Rightfielder Dwight Evans' game-saving catch of a Joe Morgan drive in the eleventh; and, most Homeric, Catcher Carlton Fisk's game-winning home run in the twelfth...
...alive. His crisis came with none out and a man on first in the bottom of the tenth inning; the score was tied 5-5. That was the moment when Reds Pinch Hitter Ed Armbrister bunted, hesitated as he started toward first, and then collided with Red Sox Catcher Carlton Fisk just as Fisk was trying to field the ball. Fisk pushed Armbrister aside, then threw the ball over second base into centerfield. Was his error caused by interference? If so, Armbrister was out and the runner would return to first. If not, the Reds had two men on base...
...base of the Monster, a dissolve and a fade-in with the scoreboard Reds 6 Sox 3. Click, the Carbo miracle settling into the center field seats, click, Doyle out at the plate, the victory postponed, Morgan robbed by the golden glove of Evans, and finally the dancing, prancing Carlton Fisk waving his twelfth inning shot into fair territory...