Carlton Fisk hit his memorable World Series home run 40 years ago
After Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, Carlton Fisk said he felt the Red Sox showed how baseball was supposed to be played.
The catcher had just hit a 12th-inning, game-winning homer, one of the most memorable home runs in MLB history.
Via The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy, a local television journalist Clark Booth suggested, “Instead of playing a seventh game, they should spread tables and checkered tablecloths across the outfields and just have a picnic, a feast to a glorious World Series, and toast one another until dawn.’’
The draw would have been a better ending for the Red Sox, who fell to the Reds, 4-3, in Game 7.
Read all of Shaughnessy’s commemorative column here.
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This is what Fenway Park used to look like
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