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Those moments are special, but his true value to baseball and Boston, the work ethic he brought to the game, can only be borne out in his career statistics. Games--3308. Runs--1816. Hits--3419. Doubles--646. Home Runs--452. RBIs--1844. Walks...
Bosox fans don't just remember Yaz for replacing Williams, winning the batting title in his third season in the majors or capturing the Triple Crown. They remember him for being there, game in, game out, for 23 seasons with...
...dawning of the age of free agency, Yaz stayed put and kept on playing for the Red Sox and for those same fans--more than 3300 games for the same team. The pressures of the modern game--attorneys, drug testing, gambling, salary disputes and owner collusion--couldn't touch...
IRONICALLY, I will always remember Yaz for one of those "moments." It was The Game--the 1978 American League East one-game playoff between the Red Sox and the New York Yankees, and I watched it amid cartons in the empty living room of the house my family had moved into. The first thing I unpacked was the television so that I could watch the game...
...final swing in a playoff game. A lazy pop foul to third baseman Craig Nettles. And the Yankees and Yankee fans (at the time, myself included) rejoiced their own "impossible dream...