As Bernie Carbo rounded the bases that electric October night 50 years ago, spreading his arms like the condor as if his feet were not touching the Fenway Park ground, one wonders what went through his mind. Could he have imagined the moment, that pinch-hit three-run homer, tying Game 6 of the World Series, would live forever?

“No, not at all,” Carbo, said during his appearance at the World Series Club of Hartford County this week. “We lost. We should have won. … Game 7, we didn’t turn the double play.”

That’s not the most remembered play of a classic World Series that included Carbo’s shot and Carlton Fisk’s walk-off homer in Game 6. Then there was a controversial no-call on possible interference in Game 4, Tony Perez’s homer on Bill Lee’s blooper pitch and Joe Morgan’s game-win

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