Word: yastrzemskis
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Quarterback Tom Bilodeau and half-back Stan Yastrzemski will lead the Crimson team, which soundly whipped Tufts and Brown in games earlier this season. Bolstering the line will be tackle Joe Jurek and ends Paul Barringer, Curt Lemkau, Tom Sedlacek, and Frank Ulcickas...
...pondered the pros and cons of a baseball career. Joyce sought counsel from businessmen, clergymen, lawyers, and such former bonus babies as Boston's Bill Monbouquette ($4,000) and Carl Yastrzemski ($100,000). Dick's father, a onetime minor league pitcher, was alarmed by carefully planted reports that the big leagues might soon outlaw bonus payments, and urged Dick to accept the Red Sox offer. Dick refused. "If I had accepted the $100,000," he explained last week, "I would have been able to keep only about $69,000 after taxes. Scholastic and business experts estimate that today...
...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...
...Carl played five positions, hit a sizzling .540 and attracted contract-clutching scouts from 14 major league teams. But he turned down substantial bonus offers and entered Notre Dame instead. Not until sophomore year did he finally decide to play professional baseball. The scouts were as anxious as ever. Yastrzemski refused a $100,000 offer from the Cincinnati Reds, also got a special tryout from the Milwaukee Braves. He collected 23 hits in 24 trips to the plate, and the drooling Braves offered $115,000. They were turned down too. Milwaukee, Carl decided, was too far from Bridgehampton. The snooty...