Weird Card Wednesday: 1985 Carlton Fisk

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Courtesy of Rich Selg, this 1985 Carlton Fisk card appears like your prototypical slugging catcher.  Until you look a little harder.

Season Totals
Split G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP SLG
1985 Totals 153 148 543 85 129 23 1 37 107 17 52 81 .238 .320 .488
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 2/22/2017.

 

Fisk, who had by 1985 had migrated to the Southside, is rated slow, and has plenty of power with numbers 1-1-0-0.  He doesn’t hit much else (he has a 25-9). 

But wait. What is a slow catcher who played 153 games doing with a 15-11?  Sure enough, Carlton Fisk stole a career high 17 stolen bases (he also stole 17 in 1982). 

Fisk has three 14s but can add a 61-42 HBP to the mix.  Fisk is due the 42 because of (yes) 17 hit-by-pitches. 

He also has a 14-30, a 21-30 and a 23-30 giving him three 30 result numbers in a range of six dice roll numbers on the card. 

thanks, Rich!

Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as a frequent participant of the Chicagoland APBA Tournament. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

3 Comments:

  1. AND for being a slow catcher, he does not have a 24 on the card, unless I’m missing it.

  2. I have a 1976 Sal Bando who is also rated slow with a 15-11

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