The Greatest Athlete To Wear #72- Carlton Fisk.

I somehow went from #73 to #71 skipping #72 yesterday.

Not a lot of great #72’s-some notables are football’s Lincoln Kennedy[who went to school at Washington} Dan Dierdorf was a Hall of Fame tackle for the Cardinals and Ed “Too Tall” Jones of the old 1970’s Cowboys. William “The Refrigerator” Perry was one of the most famous #72’s but his days of glory were few.

The Greatest Athlete To Wear #72 was Carlton “Pudge” Fisk-the Hall of Fame catcher for the Red Sox and White Sox. He was #27 in Boston, when he got traded to Chicago he became #72. I always think of Pudge as a Red Sox but he actually played more games with the White Sox. Pitcher Ken Kravec had #27 when he went to Chicago-so he took #72- the year his son Casey was born and the year he broke into the major leagues. In the end Fisk played 25 seasons and set a number of records for a catcher-games caught and home runs. He is in the baseball Hall of Fame, and he looked like a baseball player. Even if he hadn’t had a Hall of Fame career I would have taken Fisk for 2 events- his game winning home run in the best baseball game I’ve ever seen- Game 6 1975 World Series and for the time he took Neon Deion Sanders to the woodshed for not running out a ground ball during Sanders brief and forgettable career in baseball.