Distant Replay: The Carlton Fisk home run that broke Boston’s heart

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

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🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In his very first game with the White Sox in 1981, Carlton Fisk hit a game-winning 3-run homer in the 8th inning at Fenway Park against his former team. It was madness--not only on the field, but in the broadcast booth with White Sox broadcasters Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall. Host Chuck Garfien is joined by Ryan McGuffey and Chris Kamka to discuss everything that led up to that game, Fisk signing with the White Sox, the insane commentary by Caray and Piersall and the home run that is still remembered to this day.(3:35) - History of bad blood between Fisk and the Red Sox enabled the White Sox to sign Fisk(20:00) - The crazy broadcast by Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall(32:00) - Carlton Fisk's first at-bat with the White Sox vs his old team(39:25) - Fisk's game-winning home run, Piersall called it, and why did the Red Sox even pitch to him?(43:20) - Piersall rips LaMarr Hoyt(46:38) - Ed Farmer closes out the game for the win

Transcript

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0:00.0	Carlton Fist facing Bob Stanley
0:06.8	Hey go get me back please make me
0:11.9	holy cow
0:14.5	Carlton Fist has put the white socks ahead
0:21.7	Harry Carey and Jimmy Pearsall losing their minds on the air at Fenway Park.
0:28.7	Carlton Fisk, with a game-winning three-run Homer in the eighth in his White Sox debut and against
0:34.1	the Red Sox, his former team.
0:36.8	That is the backdrop for this crazy edition of
0:40.4	distant replay on the White Sox Talk podcast, brought to you by WinTrust. It is April 10th,
0:46.2	1981. Fisk made his debut. So did Greg Luzinski and Ron the floor. Lamar Hoyt got the win.
0:53.5	Ed Farmer got the save.
0:55.5	Harry Carey and Jimmy Purcell were allowed to basically say anything they wanted on the air,
1:00.5	and they often did.
1:02.2	It was a storybook debut for Carlton Fisk,
1:05.4	featuring a gold mine of White Sox buried treasure.
1:09.7	Holy Cow.
1:11.2	Here we go. White Sox. White Sox. Go, go. White Sox buried treasure. Holy cow. Here we go.
1:12.1	White Sox.
1:13.0	White Sox.
1:13.6	Go, go, white Sox.
1:16.0	A ball hit deep way back.
1:18.0	Deep time,
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