Talk:Carlton Fisk

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(paraphrased here to remove an obscenity)?

What kind of excuse is that? Wikipedia has articles on every swear and taboo topic. Removing what he said because of an obscenity is rather rediculous. IceDrake523 04:05, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation page

What about Carlton Fisk the Wu-Tang Clan member? How about a disambiguation page?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.232.28.71 (talk) 08:29, 5 December 2006

Interleague play

I'm sorry, but there was no such thing as "interleague" play in 1975. This really needs to be cleaned up, because I assure that there was no naming ceremony for "The Pole" during an interleague series 22 years before interleague play was instituted.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.98.64.226 (talk) 19:24, 5 July 2007

What is with the colors?

Why do we have a nice picture of carlton in his Boston Uniform while the coloring for the stats is white sox. it should be all boston or all Chisox with a pic of him in as a White sox. or go nuetral with solid white —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.114.13.255 (talk) 03:45, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot 10:56, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unusual number?

From the article: "At that time, his old number 27 was held on the White Sox by pitcher Ken Kravec. Fisk flip-flopped his old number and thus wore the unusual baseball number of 72 on his jersey."

Why is 72 an unusual baseball number? A minor point, but one I am quite curious about. The Mink Ermine Fox (talk) 00:04, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think if someone were to research the people who have worn any given uniform number in baseball history, you would find that numbers much above 50 are quite rare. The first numbers to be worn reflected the number of the person's order in the line up (Babe Ruth #3, Lou Gehrig #4, etc), so most ball players wore lower numbers. LonelyBeacon (talk) 02:33, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Missing citations

It could be argued that two valid citations should be located and affixed to this sentence from the start of the article: "Fisk is best known for 'waving fair' his game-winning home run in the 12th inning of Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, one of the greatest moments in World Series history." It could also be argued, in the alternative, that the salient points made within the sentence (i.e.: Fisk's being best known for the Game 6 walk-off home run and that moment's rarefied place in World Series history) are self-evident to everyone knowledgeable about modern-era baseball. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swantamer (talk • contribs) 14:25, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Film reference

Is it worth mentioning in the article that Fisk's home run in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series is used as a plot point in the film Good Will Hunting? The character played by Robin Williams explains to the Matt Damon character that he had a ticket for the game, but with some friends in a bar before the game he saw a woman he liked and handed his ticket over to someone else so that he could stay in the bar with her. As a result, he missed Fisk's home run bouncing off the pole, and the subsequent pitch invasion but instead married the girl. Cottonshirt τ 08:30, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notable feuds

I was planning to take this subsection out of the article, in much the same way that we avoid "controversies" sections in other entries. I don't see anything that suggests that Fisk was any more prone to feuds than other well-known baseball players. I think his issues with Thurman Munson could be just as easily covered within other sections of the article. I was surprised that his long-running issues with CWS management weren't covered there, but they are easily discussed elsewhere. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing something before I got rid of this section. EricEnfermero (Talk) 21:24, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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