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...else. And this season Yaz is playing well, very well. Perhaps this is because for once his revered position on the team is under attack from a new upstart and young favorite. Yaz might not be quite ready for a successor. But then nobody was quite ready for Freddy Lynn...
...Fred Lynn captures peoples' imagination in a way that makes history before it happens. Lynn, a rookie centerfielder fresh up from a quick but unbrilliant career with Pawtucket, is having a sensational, sensational year. He is leading the league in RBIs and leading the majors in run production--RBIs plus runs, minus the homers, which are duplicates. He is fourth in homers and number two in batting average, behind Rod Carew--which is like running second to Hermes. He handles centerfield like a fish in water and he runs the bases like a pro. In late June he knocked...
...treacherous, demanding, hopelessly in love Red Sox fans, for he has awakened in them the purest essence of their love for Boston and baseball, he has transported them back to a Land of Oz. And as usual, this nirvana is an anachronistic place. Bars rustle wwth talk of Freddy Lynn--who is he like. Ted Williams or Joe DiMaggio? The comparison is borne of the old debate between those two heros, in the Golden Age of modern Boston baseball, when the Yankees were regarded with about as much affection as the National Socialist Party in Germany a few years before...
...this city racism. No one's going to argue that Puerto Rican pitcher Diego Segan is getting a raw deal in favor of white players, but some observers do feel that Jim Rice, say, the team's other rookie whose performance is only a shade less amazing that Lynn's might not be getting the recognition he deserves. Do the Boston Red Sox have a systematic policy of racism. It's fruitless to argue specifies did black so and so get traded for white so and so--but in a general sense the Red Sox record in race relations...
...rate, Jim Rice has been the Lou Gehrig of the Red Sox this season, an over-shadowed second fiddle to Lynn's Babe Ruth. Winner of the minor league Triple Crown last year with Pawtucket he was expected to be the real star, and in a Lynnless summer he would have been. As it stands, he's hitting almost ...300, and is third in the league in RBIs. Beginning the season as a designated hitter, he's recently moved to left field and has been fielding well...