Carlton Fisk retired from baseball in 1993 but the announcer who called his famous World Series home run has only just announced his own.

Dick Stockton is stepping away after a 55-year career that included stints with Fox, CBS and NBC. He had cut back on work in recent years — doing only NFL games for Fox — and said Friday during a telephone interview that he had been contemplating retirement for the past year.

“It’s an instinctive feeling that you have that you’ve done what you’ve accomplished,” he said.

The 78-year-old Stockton called at least 1,545 games on network TV, but the moment that stands out is Fisk’s game-winning homer in the 12th inning of Game 6 of the 1975 World Series.