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Bosox fans don't just remember Yaz for replacing Williams, winning the batting title in his third season in the majors or capturing the Triple Crown. They remember him for being there, game in, game out, for 23 seasons with...
...remembered for collecting those incredible statistics in front of the same fans, always under the shadow of the Green Monster, that left fielder's nightmare whose caroms he mastered as no one else has. Yaz was the end of an era, when baseball players were known for the uniform they wore and the fans they played in front of as much as for their talents...
...dawning of the age of free agency, Yaz stayed put and kept on playing for the Red Sox and for those same fans--more than 3300 games for the same team. The pressures of the modern game--attorneys, drug testing, gambling, salary disputes and owner collusion--couldn't touch...
...Pressure? What pressure," Yaz asked Sunday when asked about the "rigors" of being a major league baseball player. "Pressure is what faces millions and millions of fathers and mothers trying to earn a living every day to support a family to give it comfort, devotion and love. That's what pressure really...
IRONICALLY, I will always remember Yaz for one of those "moments." It was The Game--the 1978 American League East one-game playoff between the Red Sox and the New York Yankees, and I watched it amid cartons in the empty living room of the house my family had moved into. The first thing I unpacked was the television so that I could watch the game...