Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tanana's arm, Carney Lansford's glasses and the invisible man, Cariton Fisk, will make the news in the next few weeks, but the squad's chances in baseball's toughest division may depend on just who Houk chooses for that last spot...
...talking to Los Angeles about catcher Steve Yeager, who is in danger of losing his starting job to steady Mike Scioscia. He'll be talking to the catching-rich Oakland A's, probably about ex-Yankee Mike Heath. He may even be talking to agent Jerry Kapstein about Carlton Fisk...
Sullivan helped to confirm two long-suspected notions this winter. The first is that he is a man of principles, and as such is not likely to back down on any position--so in all probability, scratch Fisk. The second is that many Red Sox fans do not agree with those principles...
...next six weeks, Sullivan and new manager Ralph Houk--who still had Lynn, Fisk, and Rick Burleson penciled in his opening day lineup when he accepted the job--will have to reconstruct a team that has not shown flashes of a winning attitude since September '79. Carney Lansford, acquired in the Burleson trade, will help, but the muddle up the middle (Hoffman? Nichols? Miller?) caused a recent caller to a Boston talk show to remark that "every ground ball hit over second base will turn into a triple...
...whole trajectory, watch the ball go all the way to its destination, without the distraction of a change of cameras for a close-up of the play at the plate. So Fred Lynn's throw sailed home, seemed to hesitate at its apogee, and landed in Carlton Fisk's fat glove about a foot above the plate. The Detroit baserunner--whoever he was--never had a chance...