Word: yastrzemskis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play ended a wild evening in Tiger Stadium which began with more heroics from ageless Carl Yastrzemski. The captain had a stellar night Tuesday driving in five of the Sox's eight runs, three coming off a first-inning homer...
Rick Burleson got the Sox going in the third with a single and a stolen base. He then scored as 39-year-old Carl Yastrzemski popped a single into left-center with...
...indescribable Yastrzemski seemed to be saying "yes" when he popped a ninth-inning homer, his 14th of the year, to close the scoring for the game; but the memory of the "pinstriped plague" that devasted Boston has to sour sweet old Fenway's pennant dreams...
Bobby, frozen in his follow-up, watched the scene get madder and madder, with believing awe. His teammates swarmed him, they banged him and they laughed insanely: Fisk, Burleson, Scott, Yastrzemski, Rice...Lee and Zimmer hugged each other in ecstasy, 14-year-old girls kissing Bobby wetly, yelping fans tried to do everything but get inside of his skin...
...worst was yet to come. When he arrived at spring training the following year, Rice was removed from left field, and Carl Yastrzemski returned to his old haunts from first base. Rice became the designated hitter, and while he still stroked 25 home runs, his average slumped to .282. "You can't stay loose just sitting on the bench waiting to bat in the first, fourth and eighth innings," analyzes Rice. "Staying in the game mentally is even harder...