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xs • ‘ Page 8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1978 SAVE MONEY Fisk knows pains of catching ON YOUR CAR INSURANCE TAKE THE NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL S DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE When: August 11 5-10 P.M. Continuing August 12 8-12 A.M. Where: Rudder Tower Room 501 Cost: $10.00 ISponsored by the MSC Free University and the College Station Lions Club. |For more information call 845-1515 or come by Room 211 Life behind plate not eas Vo lot the MSC. United Press International NEW YORK — By doing a little simple arithmetic, you can estimate Carlton Fisk bends up and down something like 12,000 times a sea son. That’s a conservative estimate. Squatting on his haunches, with those metal bars across his face and all that harness on, beating off nasty foul tips on every part of his body all the while, he has to be “in” the ball game with each pitch. And if you don’t think all this intense concen tration and physical activity doesn’t take a whole lot out of a man, you ought to get a look at the big Boston catcher now. He has lost 15 pounds and he aches all over. His nickname is “Pudge” but there is nothing at all pudgy about him now. He looks pale and drawn, almost as if he has just donated a couple of pints ol blood, but it’s a long, long season and the Red Sox need both his bat and his glove desperately. The farthest thing from his mind is going up to Manager Don Zimmer and asking him for a rest. To give you some idea of what Fisk means to the Red Sox, he was 21-for-54 during the 11 of 14 games they dropped before coming into Yankee Stadium recently for their latest series with the defending world champs. That works out to a .389 batting average and nobody else on the club could touch it. With his .299 season average, his 15 home runs and his 59 RBI, he is the heartbeat, the very core of the Red Sox ballclub. 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HlirC Minute Maid ^ JUIUC Frozen Orange 42 oz. eon ffV t • 1717711 T#tih0, * Frozan Al Varieties • 13 oz. pkg.O^ ♦ 59* a foul tip off Willie Randolph’sJ P ^ the second inning caught Fisli most sensitive part of his groin* pain was excruciating and moments as he doubled looked as if he might not beaj continue, but after walking m for a while, he put on his masl got behind the plate again. Two innings later, Fisk sj sharply to drive in Jerry Ren" after crossing first base, will called, he walked into foul tei and bent his head toward hist He was white as chalk. Al blood had rushed from his hej suddenly he felt nauseous, a$ was going to throw up. “ What’s-a-matter?” Jol Pesky, the Red Sox first baset inquired solicitously. “John, I’m beat, Fisk ansm "My strength is all sapped. “You want me to call thetra; asked Pesky. “No, I’ll make it,” Fisk said, ing over to take his position« base again. Fisk caught the entire] which was interrupted twiceh and lasted until 1:16 a.m 13th, weary as he was, Fisk a wicked sizzler to the left ofi baseman Craig Nettles. Th| bad base hit written all over somehow Nettles flagged it and made the throw to first. Sand had been poured baselines because of the rain though Fisk was giving it all try ing to make first, the mi derfooting slowed him down so that Nettles’ throw beat about a step. At 1:30 a.m., when most other people in baseball al were asleep, or shouldve Carlton Fisk, still in uniform, the floor in the Red Sox drt room at Yankee Stadium ands ously spooned up some sauced balls from a paper plate puto all the players by the dubhoc tendant. “I was running as fastasl but I felt like 1 was spinnis] wheels," he said, talkingaboi ball he hit in the 13th. The Red Sox receiver lid couple of sips from acanofiwl someone asked him howitfetB behind the plate so long, intl:« eer and all, and then come outdHexas game with nothing really tosattbej it. Bnef “Th ese kind of nights ache all over your bcxly A’ Jp 0 ® “Especially when you msrtokira’Thii squatting for so many horn nal Pi “What do you think aboulV-broaii the plate? was one question Jp™ Fisk smiled. Wf> ^ My sen “You’re always thinking: livid,,,, game,” he said, "hut once: Lhlei when there’s a break in tb for a second or so, you dayL ^ between pitches. 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