He used to be called Carl? Really?

Here is an interesting item I found on a dabbler's journal. It's a brief note from a 1968 issue of The Sporting News that he found at Paper of Record.

It has everything that I look for: A future hall of famer, a mention of the Appleton Foxes, and an interesting story with a twist at the end.

Waterloo, IA -- Catcher Carl[ton] Fisk of the Waterloo (Midwest) Hawks missed the team bus for a trip to Appleton, Wis., so he decided to hitch-hike. He beat the bus there by half an hour.

You know, Carl Fisk just wouldn't look right on this plaque.

The brief is from August 10, 1968...Thirteen months later, Fisk was making his major league debut.