Word: yaz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That lonely world championship flag has resided in Fenway for 70 years. Ted Williams didn't win one. Yaz didn't win one. Freddie Lynn didn...
...used to bake cupcakes for Yaz's birthday. I sped down the left lane of Rte. 128 a few summers ago to catch up with a car driven by Bruce Hurst. My brother and I approached Bob Stanley in Polcari's restaurant and told him that our Mom used to take piano lessons in his hometown...
...from Boston's suffering (most, after all, for Yankee gain) all my life. I reacted with boyish glee when, in 1949, Boston faced the Yanks one game up with two to go--and my guys won both for the pennant. And, although (honest to God) I didn't want Yaz to make the last out by popping to third, I decided that Bucky Dent was the greatest living American one afternoon in early October, 1978. The Red Sox, in other words, began as my mortal enemies...
...easily playable ground ball). Yes, this was much worse--worse than selling that great lefty pitcher named Ruth, worse than Pesky holding the ball in 1946, worse than facing the Gibson machine in 1967, worse than Joe Morgan in 1975, worse even than Bucky Dent and Yaz's pop to third...
This theory inspired from Roger Angell the greatest one-liner in the history of American sports literature. Responding to Vermeule's allegation, he offered another interpretation. He opined that God could just as easily have permitted Yaz to double off the "Green Monster" but that, at the crucial moment of Gossage's last pitch, God must have looked away momentarily and bent down to shell a peanut...