Word: yastrzemskis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they swarmed around our heroes who were innocent and obliging in their little boy knickers and knee sox. We--the public--had created the Press, or perhaps they created us. In any case, they polluted the field with our worst qualities, our inane curiosity and opportunism. They messed about Yastrzemski as if to pull him down. Solid, neatly divided in two equal parts by his black belt, loosening up with grace and some levity, the Great God Yaz seemed impentrable in his excellence. The Press could not touch...
...Yastrzemski. What does one say? He is apart. He came to bat after Adair, and one took pleasure, even in his patient preparation. In the on-deck circle, two bats swirling around the shoulders, above the head in an ashwood ceremony of prayer and promise. Meticulous attention to every detail...
Kaat's reliever, Perry hung on for two innings, but in the fifth, after the Red Sox had scored one run, the pitcher failed to cover first on a sharp grounder by Yastrzemski and Boston went ahead...
...could understand Versalles error. But one couldn't cope with Yastrzemski. Here education came to an end, blunted, then smothered by religion. It was existential--the clutch. All the past hits established at best probability--more likely possibility, which is to say nothing. And that this man continued to overpower these situations, seven out of eight times--holding our religious feeling in hand, toying with it, and with another hit driving that feeling still higher--that was inhuman...
...fans, Carl Yastrzemski supplied the only happy moments in the Boston homecoming. Yaz drove in all three Sox runs in the seventh inning with a towering blast over the flagpole in left-center. The homer was Yastrzemski's 43rd of the season--tieing Ted Williams' club record for a left-hander--and boosted Yastrzemski's league totals in HR's and RBI's in his bid for the American League Triple Crown. He also hit a double in three official at-bats to raise his season average...