Hall-of-Famers as Seen Through Player Won-Lost Records: Carlton Fisk

• Carlton Fisk held the major-league record for games played at catcher at his retirement, having set the record of 2,226 games caught in the final game of his major-league career on June 22, 1993, breaking the previous record of 2,225 games held by Bob Boone. Ivan Rodriguez (who shared a nickname, "Pudge", with Fisk and was the opposing catcher in Fisk's final game) has since broken Fisk’s record.


• Fisk won the 1972 American League Rookie of the Year award. He was named to eleven All-Star teams and received MVP votes seven times, finishing in the top 10 in MVP voting four times.


• Fisk hit 351 of his 376 career home runs as a catcher, a major-league record for home runs as a catcher until it was broken by Mike Piazza.


• Fisk was born and raised in New England and played his first nine seasons with the Boston Red Sox. Fisk’s first game as a new member of the Chicago White Sox was against the Red Sox at Fenway Park on April 10, 1981. In the top of the eighth inning, Fisk hit a one-out, three-run home run to give the White Sox a 3-2 lead in a game they would go on to win 5-3.


• Carlton Fisk had his uniform number retired by both the Boston Red Sox (27) and Chicago White Sox (72).