Word: yaz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mickey Lolich was in trouble. Tommy Harper and Little Luis danced off base as he threw a curve that hung over the dish for the reborn Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz placed the ball over the dish for the outstretched arm of Mickey Stanley in the cavernous Detroit center field. Harper crossed the plate with the tying run as Yaz steamed into third base. But the coordination of Aparicio had deserted him in this one crucial moment. Little Luis fell down, crawled back to third base with the go-ahead run, to greet the ecstatic, then horrified, yastrzemski. The pennant...
...spring, reports will start to trickle back to Boston from Winter Haven; stories of Yaz, and Rico, and Reggie, and some rookie who won't make it. But until then, these who live this game again and again will wonder: "If only Aparicio hadn't fallen down...
...Yaz...
...admittedly, not a die-hard Red Sox fan, but living in Boston for three years has sobered me up a little. This year, after trading away their lineup to the Brewers, the Sox look pretty lackluster. Sure they have Yaz, but with chest pains and all, land coming off his worst season eve. All right, they have Tommy Harper, Reggie Smith, Rico Petrocelli, and a couple of decent pitchers in roger Moret, Marty Pattin, Sonny Siebert, and Ray Culp (gasp). But where will that get them? I say, optimistically, third, but if they don't get early. It could...
...Yaz will bat third and play left field, with Reggie Smith following as clean up man. Smith will hold down right field. Rico Petrocelli will bat fifth and play third base, and Danny Cater will hit sixth and play first. Second baseman Doug Griffin, catcher Duane Josephson, and Marty Pattin round out the order...