Tom Boswell published this account in the Washington Post . “One Tuesday night in Yankee Stadium, year old Carlton Fisk of the Chicago White Sox took 22-year old multisport multimillionaire Deion ‘Prime Time’ Sanders of the New York Yankees to the woodshed for not running out a popup. And he did it in front of 24,241 witnesses. “Fisk said he blew his stack (causing a bench-clearing fracas) so that Lou Gehrig could ‘stop spinning in his grave.’ “When Sanders popped up, he walked toward first base, then strolled to the Yankee dugout before the ball was caught. Imagine his surprise when there, behind him, bellowing, was the mammoth Fisk, who could bench-press two Deions. “Run it out, you piece of crud,’ ordered Fisk, who’s in his 21 st season, to Sanders, who hasn’t yet played in 21 big league games. ’Go on, run it out.’ “Sanders was nonplused. Why would Fisk care if a player on another team didn’t run out a popup? On his next at-bat, Sanders learned...
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