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This Day In Red Sox History: December 20, 1980
By Administrator | December 20, 2009
Material for This Day In Red Sox History is drawn from Bill Nowlin’s “Day by Day with the Boston Red Sox”
This was the deadline date for the Sox to mail their tendering offer for the 1981 season to catcher Carlton Fisk. When the offer arrived, it was postmarked December 22nd… and as a result, Fisk was declared a free agent on February 12, 1981.
He would sign with the Chicago White Sox –where he would spend the rest of his Hall-of-Fame career — on March 9th.
Baseball historian Glenn Stout calls it: “the biggest front office error in the history of baseball”.
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