Word: yaz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pete Rose ever grows up, we will all grow old, and if Carl Yastrzemski ever grows old, well... well, it's over, that's all. The summer has been improved by the improvement of Yastrzemski, a Yaz of yore again and almost 43. At 41, Rose is just Rose, which Gertrude Stein somehow knew before The Sporting News. In the recordbook, they stand first and second among active players in games played, at-bats, hits, singles, doubles, extra base hits, total bases and runs scored. Their teams, the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies, stand thicker than pine...
...three-room display offers something for even the poor fanatic. It provides the opportunity to examine the program, and the ticket stub from the game where Yaz got his 3000th...
Sure, Houk is a player's man--he won't blast them in print or lead by fear or threats--but there's nothing wrong with that. When he retired from baseball, Al Kaline commented that Houk was the best manager he ever played under. And, Yaz said it at the press conference: nobody, not stars or scrubs, ever knocks Houk as a man or a manager...
When Cooper has received exposure in the past, he has often been over-shadowed. Traded away from first-magnitude stars Lynn, Rice and Yaz in Boston, his first-base play in Milwaukee has not received the all-star consideration it has merited because of California's Carew...
...Yaz is sold to a cable system, which airs the 125-minute version, and then to a commercial network, which gives the film a new title (The Umpire Strikes Out). To fit a two-hour prime-time slot, the network cuts it to 97 minutes. Later, another network restores much of the footage, including half an hour of outtakes, minus the locker-room sex scene. Finally, 16mm prints are rented to film societies and revival houses, but in a TV-shaped format and with yet another title: La Cage aux Fouls...