They Wrote It

Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum

July 12, 1993

?Thomas Boswell in The Washington Post, praising last-of-a-breed catcher Carlton Fisk, who after playing that position in a major league-record 2,226 games was released on June 28 by the Chicago White Sox at the age of 45: "For 24 years, you could watch him at Fenway Park or Comiskey Park. Now he might as well be in Jurassic Park [above]."