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  Bernie Carbo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernardo "Bernie" Carbo (born August 5, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former Major League Baseball right fielder/designated hitter who played with the Cincinnati Reds (1969-72), St.
Carbo was selected Rookie of the Year by The Sporting News.
Carbo's pinch homer was his second of the Series, tying a Series record.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernie_Carbo   (453 words)

  
 Bernie Carbo
Bernie Carbo is revered to this day in the New England area as the man who hit two pinch-hit homeruns in the 1975 World Series for the Boston Red Sox against the Cincinnati Reds.
Bernie was drafted by these same Reds in the first round of the 1965 draft ahead of their number two pick, Hall of Famer, Johnny Bench.
Bernie is available to run baseball clinics for children and youths and is an excellent teacher of the fundamentals of baseball.
www.eventureentertainment.com /biographies/bios_carbo.htm   (298 words)

  
 Elrod Hendricks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernie Carbo, who was on third base, was running home on the play.
Hendricks lunged toward Carbo, attempting to tag him out as umpire Ken Burkhart moved toward the field to call the ball fair.
Burkhart collided with Hendricks, spinning to the ground as Hendricks tagged Carbo with an empty glove (the ball was still in his other hand).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elrod_Hendricks   (778 words)

  
 Carbo Diet -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Carbo's pinch homer was his second of the Series, tying a Series record.The Game 7, watched by an estimated 71 million TV viewers, saw the Reds triumph in the ninth inning on a bloop single by Joe Morgan for a 4-3 win.
A member of the plebeian Carbos of the gens Papiria, and nephew of Gaius Papirius Carbo (consul of 120), he was a strong supporter of the Marian party, and took part in the blockade of Rome (87 BC).
In 82 BC Carbo, then consul for the third time with the younger Marius, fought an indecisive engagement with Sulla near Clusium, but was defeated with great loss in an attack on the camp of Sulla's general, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius near Faventia.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/27/carbo-diet.html   (720 words)

  
 Hobson and Carbo independent fans
For Carbo, managing the Pelicans gives him a chance to stay in the game he loves, and he says that the love of the game is what drives most of the players in independent baseball to continue playing when they might otherwise quit and move on to something else.
Carbo also thinks independent baseball is a great thing for the fans of the sport who either can't or don't want to pay the high prices to see major league baseball.
Carbo is best remembered for the game-tying three-run home run that sent the sixth game of the 1975 World Series into extra innings, and the Sox won that game on the famous Carlton Fisk home run before losing the seventh game.
enterprise.southofboston.com /articles/2005/01/23/news/sports/sports02.txt   (1069 words)

  
 Former Major League Baseball Star Bernie Carbo Sues MLB for Use of His Image in MCI Television Advertisement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Carbo individually and on behalf of the general public, an unspecified sum in damages which will be proven at trial, as well as a permanent injunction against further broadcast of future advertisements without first obtaining Mr.
Carbo began his professional baseball career in 1969 as the number one draft choice for the Cincinnati Reds and was named MLB's Rookie of the Year in 1970.
Carbo is a plaintiff in that suit as well, but he brought this separate suit with regard to the film of his 1975 home run because the judge in the class action has ruled that film and videotapes are not included in that case.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/1-12-98/392242   (571 words)

  
 Cincinnati Reds : News : Cincinnati Reds News
Carbo's blast was his second-pinch hit home run of the Series, making him only the second man in history to hit two or more pinch-hit homers in a World Series.
Carbo spent parts of five seasons with Boston (1974-'78), but even his World Series play could not prevent him from being traded to the Indians early in 1978.
When Carbo speaks candidly about his troubled past, his purpose is to educate young players of the fragility of the Major Leagues, and on the temporal nature of a baseball career.
mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060607&content_id=1494709&vkey=news_cin&fext=.jsp&c_id=cin&partnered=rss_cin   (1006 words)

  
 The Sporting News : Where Have You Gone...
Bernie Carbo will be the first to tell you: He's lucky to be alive.
In fact, Carbo was named The Sporting News Rookie of the Year in 1970 when he hit.310 with 21 home runs for Cincinnati.
Carbo was a role player on the 1975 Red Sox, which had an outfield of rookie sensations Jim Rice and Fred Lynn, as well as Dwight Evans and Carl Yastrzemski.
archive.sportingnews.com /features/wherearethey/carbo/index.html   (1010 words)

  
 Major League Baseball News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bernie Carbo doesn't need to do anything more than turn on his television to discover how swiftly 27 years can fly by.
Pinch-hitter Carbo changed that with one swing, and sent Fenway Park into a state of utter delirium by drilling a three-run homer to dead center field off Rawly Eastwick.
Nearly three decades later, the biggest surprise for Carbo -- who was a left-handed hitter -- is that he was even in position to put that ball into the seats.
www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_leftfield.jsp?ymd=20020818&content_id=107380&vkey=leftfield&fext=.jsp   (1377 words)

  
 Carbo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bernie Carbo batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each season and his career, and a list of any post-season awards he has won and his rank on various season and career statistical leaderboards.
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 BBTF's Newsblog Discussion :: Redleg Nation: Bernie Carbo, The Reds first draft and Austin Kearns
Also Gammons paints Carbo as not the brightest man in his book “Beyond the Sixth Game” I’m not sure what happened to Carbo’s game, but from where I sit it looks like Kearns is experiencing alot of the same problems.
Carbo, like Erstad in 2000, and Wally Joyner in '87, picked a bad year to hit well, in terms of creating expectations.
If Bernie Williams and Ken Griffey were both allowed to patrol CF at the same time - the Yankees might just reach league average defense out of their CFer.
www.baseballthinkfactory.org /files/newsstand/discussion/29355   (1211 words)

  
 Bernie Carbo Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Bernie Carbo was born on Tuesday, August 5, 1947, in Detroit, Michigan.
Carbo was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 2, 1969, with the Cincinnati Reds.
His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Bernie Carbo baseball stats page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=carbobe01   (291 words)

  
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With the righty Eastwick on the mound, Boston skipper Johnson opted with left handed pinch hitter Bernie Carbo.
Carbo started in the Reds organiztion and was the NL 1970 Rookie of the Year.
He understood that." Carbo stayed in the game at left field, with Yastremski moving to first base.
members.tripod.com /~redsox75/7thru9.html   (714 words)

  
 1969 World Series
Killebrew flied to Carbo to end the inning but the damage had been done five runs on two hits and four walks.
Bernie Carbo then lifted a high fly out to Jim Holt in left.
Bernie Carbo slashed a sharp grounder which was snared by the Twins slick fielding shortstop Leo Cardenas, scoring Perez for the final run in the inning.
web.tampabay.rr.com /gdough/70WS.htm   (2573 words)

  
 Baseball America - Indy League Notebook
But Pelicans manager Bernie Carbo stresses the power of positive thinking.
Carbo agrees that it's more a matter of when, than if, Kranawetter goes back to affiliated ball.
But for now, he's still a Pelican, pitching for a team that has somewhat surprisingly gone from upstart to class of the league in one month.
www.baseballamerica.com /today/leagues/independent/040617notes.html   (772 words)

  
 Bernie Carbo’s Car on eBay Auction Block - OurSports Central
Carbo has driven this 2002 blue four-door Dodge Stratus for the past two years.
Bernie Carbo was a World Series hero in 1975 with the Boston Red Sox when he hit a tremendous pinch-hit homer to tie the game against the Cincinnati Reds.
Bernie was the #1 draft pick in 1965 by the Cincinnati Reds and played in the big leagues from 1969 till 1980.
www.oursportscentral.com /services/releases/?id=3138797   (513 words)

  
 Bernie Carbo | BaseballLibrary.com
Carbo had been the Reds' number-one draft pick in the inaugural 1965 draft, ahead of Johnny Bench.
With the Red Sox, Carbo was given a giant stuffed animal for good luck.
June 8, 1965: Arizona State star sophomore Rick Monday, selected by the Athletics, is the first player chosen in the initial ML free-agent draft of high school, college, and sandlot players.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Carbo_Bernie.stm   (821 words)

  
 Bernie Carbo 1972 Game by Game Batting Logs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bernie Carbo appeared in 118 Major League games during the 1972 regular season.
The chart below is a comprehensive analysis of the games Carbo appeared in, specifically relating to his 1972 hitting statistics.
If the Date is followed by an asterisk (*), Carbo started during that game at the first position listed in the Position(s) column.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/hittinglogs.php?p=carbobe01&y=1972   (179 words)

  
 Metro Pulse/Secret History/Errata, Etc.
With the corrected vision of hindsight, I observed that Carbo surprised us when he went on to become a star hitter for the Cincinnati Reds.
I implied that that 1970 season that Carbo batted.310 for the Reds was the pinnacle of his career, but reader Andrew Bryenton disagrees.
Bryenton writes, "Carbo is the man who in the 8th inning of game 6...when the Red Sox looked like whipped pups, hit a three-run homer to tie the game at 6-6, without which Carlton Fisk's famous 'remote control' homer in the 12th inning would not have been necessary or possible."
www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2001/1123/t_secret.html   (935 words)

  
 Bernie Carbo to Speak in Brockton, MA - OurSports Central
Bernie Carbo to Speak in Brockton, MA Central Baseball League (CBL) Pensacola Pelicans
Pelicans 2003 and 2004 Field Manager Bernie Carbo will be speaking at the third annual Hot Stove Banquet hosted by the Brockton Rox on Friday, January 21, 2005 in Brockton, MA.
To the Red Sox faithful, Carbo is known for hitting the eighth inning two out game-tying homerun during game six of the 1975 World Series which set the stage for Carlton Fisk’s famous game winning homerun in extra innings.
www.oursportscentral.com /services/releases/?id=3118779   (411 words)

  
 Boston Red Sox News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Boggs and Hurst -- members of the 1986 team that came one strike away from winning it all -- as well as Eckersley -- part of the 1978 team that lost the one-game playoff heartbreak to the Yankees -- tried mightily to end that World Series championship drought with their teams.
So did Bernie Carbo, who struck a legendary, pinch-hit, three-run homer to set up Carlton Fisk in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, before the Reds went on to win Game 7.
At Wednesday's ceremony, Carbo's home run was recognized as a memorable moment in Red Sox history.
boston.redsox.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/bos/news/bos_news.jsp?ymd=20041110&content_id=912676&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp   (1072 words)

  
 Batter's Box Interactive Magazine - Bern, Baby, Burn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In fact, that "other" Bernie Williams is probably best known as the other half of the trade in which the Giants packaged a fella named McCovey with Bernard off to the Padres for lefty Mike Caldwell, who was still five years away from winning 22 games for the '78 Brewers.
OF Bernie Neis (.272 with BRK, BSN, CLE, CHW 1920-27)
Anyways, Carbo may not have lived up to expectations, but he was a good hitter in a part-time role for many years.
www.battersbox.ca /article.php?story=20050316224704129   (1135 words)

  
 Ken Burkhart : Pitched in majors before becoming an umpire : HistoricBaseball.com
Burkhart moved to call it fair and found himself caught in the middle of a play as Cincinnati's Bernie Carbo slid for home and Orioles' catcher Elrod Hendricks tied to tag him.
Burkhart was knocked to the ground and signaled that Carbo was out.
According to reports, the replays showed that Hendricks tagged Carbo with an empty glove and Carbo missed the plate.
www.historicbaseball.com /players/b/burkhart_ken.html   (260 words)

  
 Catcher receives more attention - The Boston Globe
In the wonderful history of postseason baseball non-marquee players have had significant one-time-only roles, either coming up with big hits (Bernie Carbo), big catches (Al Gionfriddo), big pitching stints...
In the wonderful history of postseason baseball non-marquee players have had significant one-time-only roles, either coming up with big hits (Bernie Carbo), big catches (Al Gionfriddo), big pitching stints (Moe Drawbowsky), or by being involved in some whacked-out play (Nippy Jones).
The White Sox closed out the ALCS with a 21st-century record of four consecutive postseason complete games when Jose Contreras, the man responsible for the whole ''Evil Empire" crack, threw a five-hitter at the Angels in the 6-3 triumph.
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/articles/2005/10/17/catcher_receives_more_attention   (784 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Few remember that it was the then-Boston Red Sox outfielder Bernie Carbo's pinch-hit three-run homer that set the stage for Carlton Fisk's immortal go-ahead shot in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series.
The man Bill "Spaceman" Lee dubbed the "best 10th man in baseball" was a lean 175-pound 6-footer during his active years, and that must mean something.
This diet's mantra is "carbo, carbo, carbo," and for some, it's the anti-Atkins diet.
www.citypaper.com /special/printready.asp?id=6020   (778 words)

  
 Bernie Carbo - Statistics - The Baseball Cube   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bernie Carbo - Statistics - The Baseball Cube
The order of teams does not reflect the order of teams played during a season for the Bernie Carbo.
Its important to note that the report is based on the same statistics displayed on the TBC web site and so players with incomplete statistics will have an incomplete teammates report.
www.thebaseballcube.com /players/C/bernie-carbo.shtml   (1071 words)

  
 Anyone for Fun 'n' games: 10/15/05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Burkhart, not expecting a play at the plate, was caught out of position and in a tangle of players while Orioles catcher Elrod Hendricks fielded the ball.
Replays showed that Hendricks had the ball in his mitt when his other hand tagged Carbo.
The score was tied, and the Yankees won it in the 11th on Bernie Williams' homer and later beat Atlanta to win the World Series.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05288/589087.stm   (381 words)

  
 The Cutting Edge » 1975 Diary
Carl Yastrzemski singled home Carbo to put the Red Sox on the board, and then Carlton Fisk was intentionally walked to load up the bases.
In this situation, he would have immediately went with the left handed Will McEnaney to face Carbo, but Sparky thought that Carbo was the bait for such a move and in the event he put in McEnaney, Johnson would then hit his right hander, Juan Beniquez, to trump Sparky.
Bernie Carbo hit a huge three run homerun to tie the game.
www.redscuttingedge.com /categories/1975-diary   (3968 words)

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