Word: yaz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...utterly different and amazingly alike can two men be? Though both are 5 ft. 11 in., Yaz is a lithe, athletic 181 Ibs., Rose a rippling, bulging 203. Their ways have been their own. The bigger man chops singles, the smaller one crashes home runs. While Yaz had to replace Ted Williams in Boston at 21, an impossible thing to do, Rose had to make it in his home town of Cincinnati, which ballplayers are almost never able to do. Both were nurtured and nudged by worshiped fathers who competed in organized sports into their 40s. In Bridgehampton, N.Y., between...
Meanwhile Yaz, a 17-time All-Star, does not seem to be 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...
...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...
...contrast to Rose, who goes on playing every day in a league that goes on playing nine-man baseball, Yaz has for 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...