Pudge : the biography of Carlton Fisk / Doug Wilson.
"Doug Wilson, finalist for both the Casey Award and Seymour Medal for his previous baseball biographies, uses his own extensive research and interviews with childhood friends and major league teammates to examine the life and career of a leader who followed a strict code and played with fierce determination,"--Amazon.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250065438 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1250065437 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 358 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Thomas Dunne Books." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- 1. The New England Fisks -- 2. The Forts -- 3. Joe College -- 4. Waterloo, Pittsfield, Pawtucket, and Louisville -- 5. Boston -- 6. Rookie of the Year -- 7. New England Grit -- 8. The Best Game Ever -- 9. The Holdout Three -- 10. The Massacre -- 11. It Just Isn't the Same -- 12. Two Days Late -- 13. Chicago: The Dawn of a New Era -- 14. Winning Ugly -- 15. Pumping Iron -- 16. Colluded Waters -- 17. Respect the Game -- 18. Escorted Out -- 19. Living Without the Game -- 20. Orchids -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Carlton Fisk's Major League Career Statistics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Subject: | Fisk, Carlton, 1947- Baseball players > United States > Biography. Catchers (Baseball) > United States > Biography. Fisk, Carlton, 1947- Baseball players. Catchers (Baseball) United States. |
Genre: | Biographies. Biographies. Biography. |
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DOUG WILSON is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and has written three previous baseball books. An ophthalmologist by day, Wilson has been a life-long baseball fanatic. He played baseball through college; however, his grade point average was higher than his batting average and he was forced to go to medical school to make a living. He and his wife, Kathy, have three children and live in Columbus, Indiana.