Word: yastrzemskis
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...different-and I'm not proud of it-is that I never saw my father drink, smoke or argue with my mother. Well, my boy never saw me drink or smoke." In 1980 Rose's 16-year marriage ended in divorce. This season, Yastrzemski's 22-year marriage has been teetering publicly. Sometimes the harder it is for a ballplayer away from the game, the easier it is for him on the field. "Watch him go now," Second Baseman Joe Morgan whispered to someone at the 1978 peak of Rose's gaudy domestic drama in Cincinnati...
...able to recall any of his numbers or hold on to many of his trophies, except for the 3,000 hits and 400 home runs, of course. No other American Leaguer ever achieved that parlay. Only Henry Aaron, Willie Mays and Stan Musial of the National League, and Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz has kept just those two baseballs in 22 years. Yastrzemski's habit is to relay his trophies, like an ordinary cutoff man, to Presidents of the U.S. "I've presented one to every President since Kennedy," he says. "What should I do with awards and trophies? Touch...
...attitude about such things is described best by his run for a fourth batting title when he and Alex Johnson of the California Angels battled to the end in 1970. Yastrzemski finished his season in front with .3286, but the Angels had one game left to play. The next day several friends were at Yastrzemski's house when word came that Johnson had pulled ahead with a hit to .3289. Vanishing for a moment, Yaz reappeared with champagne. "Here's to next year," he said...
...Because Yastrzemski moves with the practiced grace of a natural athlete, only teammates have known how much he has given during his entire career. "It did not come easy to me," says Yaz proudly, almost fiercely. "I ? haven't had the greatest ability in the world. I'm not a big, strong guy. But I've paid the price." His physical regimen in preparing for this season was begun in October, 2 when the taste of last year's .246 batting average was still bitter. Yet even last year he continued to drive in runs, particularly...
...some time now had to read wistful references to how he used to play ball. Rose has not missed a game in four sea sons in a Phillies uniform and has sat out all of nine games since 1970. Rose's age has been a steady compliment, Yastrzemski's a creeping accusation. A Boston medical writer, after due research and consultations with eminent physicians, put Yaz down this year for .230, if he was lucky. He is hitting .298, playing no position...