Word: yaz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amazed when I came to Cambridge and found that people actually still go to afternoon ball games. Here it was April and the barber was talking as though it was the pennant stretch. Yaz had two hits yesterday. which meant he was better than last year, but he had no hits today, which meant he was better than last year, but he had no hits today, which meant he was worse than last year. Boston, I thought, was unique, if not peculiar...
...third inning, the Bosox retaliated on Senators' starter Casey Cox, a former relief pitcher. Carl Yazstremski, former kingpin of the Bog Yaz Bread Company, nailed one of Cox's infamous balloon balls into the bleachers in right center field for a two-run homer. The Nats lead was neatly sliced...
Before the Royals had gotten the spheroid luke-warm, Carl Yastrzemski put the ball in the pocket of a lucky fan in Section 12. Yaz put a second ball into retirement in the eighth...
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...Schaap's unfortunate failure to write I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow , as such a profile, with his own impression in his own words, dooms the book to fall into the same class as Al Hirshberg's Yaz, or Hawk, about former Red Sox outfielder Ken Harrelson, or Mike Holovak's Violence Every Sunday. And who remembers them any more...