Word: yastrzemskis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place like Cooperstown, N.Y., which redefines the term "hamlet," 25,000 people is a deluge of humanity. And most of them came from New England to see the most human of baseball players, Carl Michael Yastrzemski, officially become a baseball legend...
...been one of the best hitters in baseball over the last couple of years. Last year, the first baseman hit .327, clubbed 30 homers and drove in 115 runs. Mattingly is a legitimate threat to win the Triple Crown--leading the league in batting average, homers and RBIs. Carl Yastrzemski of the Red Sox was the last player to win the Triple Crown in 1967. Can you name the last National Leaguer to win the Crown and the year in which he did it? (Three points for the player and two for the year.) Five points...
...Carl Yastrzemski...
...move from triples to triple crowns. The American League saw back-to-back triple crowns in the mid 60's when Frank Robinson and Carl Yastrzemski turned the trick in 1966 and '67, respectively. But the National League hasn't seen a triple crown winner in a much longer time. Ten points if you can name the last NL player to accomplish that feat...
...book also includes such poignant anecdotes as Carl Yastrzemski's refusal to admit he was going to retire because that meant giving in to pitchers; Fred Lynn's ten consecutive home runs in batting practice mechanically placed clockwise across the outfield; Jim Rice's exhaustion as hardworking schoolboy ballplayer who also held down a job; coach's yell of "no, no" as "go, go" and being thrown out at the plate to kill a World Series rally, Yet once again they seem better suited to a newspaper column than to a book of this length...