It’s the first day of the Red Sox-Yankees wild card series, which means it’s as good a time as any to relive past great moments in Red Sox history. And other than the World Series victory of 2004, there was no greater moment than Carlton Fisk’s 12th-inning walkoff home run in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series against Cincinnati.
So here’s a treat from Kirk Carapezza of GBH Radio. Kirk recently talked New Yorker editor David Remnick into reading the late Roger Angell’s classic account of that homer. You can listen (and read) here. If you’re of my generation, it will bring that incredible night back.
It’s been called the finest game in baseball history, and it did a lot to revive the sport at a time when, as Carapezza points out, football was ascendant. Sadly, the Sox went on to lose Game 7. But we’ll always have that night — not to mention 2004, ’07, ’13 and ’18. Go Sox!