Carlton Fisk

Object Details

Exhibition Label: Born Bellows Falls, Vermont; A tenacious competitor with an impressive work ethic, Carlton Fisk was one of major league baseball’s most capable and durable catchers. During twenty-four seasons in the American League (first with the Boston Red Sox and later with the Chicago White Sox), Fisk caught a record-setting 2,226 games and posted home-run tallies that ranked him among the top-hitting catchers of all time. Fisk’s accomplishments were all the more remarkable because he repeatedly overcame career-threatening injuries. In 1975, after battling back from reconstructive knee surgery and a broken arm, Fisk gave Red Sox fans a never-to-be-forgotten thrill in the sixth game of the World Series when he drilled a twelfth-inning home run to win the game. Fisk always demanded the best, not only of himself but also of his teammates. As he once observed, “You don’t play baseball.... You work at it.”
Provenance: The artist; Peter C. Aldrich, Cambridge, Mass.; gift 2000 to NPG

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Peter C. Aldrich, in memory of Duane C. Aldrich of Atlanta, Georgia

1993

Medium: Oil on cotton duck
Dimensions: Stretcher: 212.4 x 121.9 x 3.8cm (83 5/8 x 48 x 1 1/2"); Frame: 224.2 x 132.7 x 6.7cm (88 1/4 x 52 1/4 x 2 5/8")

National Portrait Gallery

Topic: Carlton Fisk: Male; Carlton Fisk: Sports\Athlete\Baseball; Carlton Fisk: Athletics awards\Baseball Hall of Fame; Portrait

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