CATCHING UP WITH RICH GEDMAN This column first appeared on NorthEndWaterfront.com And also appeared on Wicked Local Before the final Pawtucket Red Sox game of the 2018 season, I caught up with former Boston Red Sox catcher and current PawSox hitting coach, Rich Gedman, for a brief conversation in the dugout. Gedman was a local Worcester kid when he eventually came up to the Red Sox on the heels of Carlton Fisk’s departure to the Chicago White Sox in 1981. “I was just a kid from a two-decker in Worcester, a house without a shower. We only had a bathtub,” remembers Gedman. “Since the day I was born I wanted to compete. I wanted to win. In the neighborhood, that could mean hitting more baskets, throwing the football farther, hit, catch, whatever. And you learned early that you wanted to make sure that you competed against kids who were better than you,” said the former Sox backstop. “It was one thing to win, but to get better you had to step it up a level.” He was sum