White Sox’ catcher says catching tough
Fisk wants position change
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United Press International
Next time you go out to see
some kids play on the sandlot,
vyatch how they all want to pitch.
, Or play first base.
Nobody wants to catch.
Carlton Fisk, who has been
catching for more than 15 years
nb r w, as man and boy, under
stands the problem completely.
That’s why he might follow
Johnny Bench’s lead some day
and ask the Chicago White Sox
to let him up from behind the
plate so he can play some other
position like first base, third base
or the outfield.
“I’ve considered the possibil
ity of taking a break from be
hind the plate,” he says. “Physic
ally, it would be very helpful. I’m
not going in and making any de
mands, though. It would be nice
playing some other position
awhile, but I know the reason
the White Sox signed me was to
catch for them.”
Day in and day out, catchers
have the most demandingjob on
the field and are easily the most
vulnerable to injury.
“I once tried to figure out
how many times I back up first
base a year,” Fisk laughs; “I real
ly tried. Honestly, I got tired of
counting that high. I quit when I
got to 1,300.”
Catchers seldom talk about
how tough their jobs are, mostly
because nobody cares and be
cause people are much more in
terested in the pitchers.
“It would be hard to explain
to someone who has never
caught before, all that is in
volved in catching,” Fisk says.
“Day after day, the physical and
mental demands of catching are
pure and simple punishment for
your body and your mind. The
only thing I really can compare
it with is that legendary little
Dutch boy who kept his finger in
the dike to try to prevent the
water from coming through.
You do it and do it as long as you
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possibly can and then one day
you can’t do it anymore and you
go pfoooof.”
Fisk has played other posi
tions with both the Red Sox and
the White Sox.
With the Red Sox in 1980,
before becoming a free agent
and signing a $3 million, five-
year contract with the White Sox
a year ago, Fisk caught 115
games but played three other
positions also. He played three
games at first, three others at
third and five in left field.
“They’re paying me to catch,”
says Fisk, whom his teammates
call “Pudge.” “Of course, my
main value is behind the plate.
I’ve never put a ceiling on how
many games I’m gonna catch,
but realistically speaking, I don’t
think they are looking for me to
catch as many as 130 games this
year. If I’m healthy, it’s conceiv
able I could catch 140 or 145,
but catching that many in one
season takes its toll from year to
year.”
The catcher the White Sox
are counting on for the future is
Joel Skinner, 21-year-old son of
Pirates’ coach Bob Skinner.
Young Skinner showed well
with Chicago this spring before
being farmed out for more ex
perience.
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With the New York Rangers’
erratic power play, Coach Herb
Brooks does no more than hope
for the best.
After a night in which he got
the worst, he watched the Ran
gers turn it around completely
Thursday night fora 7-3 victory
over the Philadelphia Flyers and
a split of the first two games of
their first-round Stanley Cup
series at New' York.
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“I feel a little better tonight,"
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justments on our power play. It
was just a matter of execution.”
One of the stars of the power
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