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...List. Son of a Bridgehampton, Long Island, potato farmer, Yastrzemski started swinging a baseball bat at three. At seven, he was fielding fungos hit by his father, a former semipro ballplayer...
Soon he was playing in neighborhood pickup games. "There were the five Yastrzemskis," he recalls, "the Skoniecznys-my mother's brothers-and my mother's cousins, the Jasinskis. Can you imagine a double play going from Skonieczny to Jasinski to Yastrzemski...
...slightly bent, and he scowls at the pitcher over a high-cocked elbow. When he unwinds, his swing is level and lightning-quick. His reflexes are so fast that even bad balls become good targets. In his first time at bat in a major league game, Boston Rookie Carl Yastrzemski sliced an outside fast ball into leftfield for a single. Next game against the Los Angeles Angels, he drove in two runs, hit a single and a booming 374-ft. triple. Said battered Angel Pitcher Jerry Casale: "He hit the single off a pitch right in on his fists...
Finding out will not be easy. At 21, after two tune-up seasons in the bushes, Leftfielder Yastrzemski (pronounced Yah-strem-skee) is the finest outfield prospect in the American League. Boston sportswriters already are comparing him to Ted Williams, and the authoritative Sporting News has all but conceded him its Rookie of the Year award. In spring training, ex-Slugger Williams watched Yastrzemski take batting practice, exulted: "The boy has everything-poise a good eye, smoothness. He'll hit .320 in his first year." The prediction seems reasonable. At Raleigh, in the Class B Carolina League. Yastrzemski...
Fifth: The Boston Red bad on Opening Day, but to think of it, they're really that terrible. They could fine hitters every day-- Chuch Schilling, Frank Pete Runnels, Russ Yastrzemski, Gary Jackie Jensen--if they gave up on defense. But has to play shortstop-- weak-hitting Pumpsie even with him the infield...