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It is would be a well-deserved honor. It woul be the right thing to do while he is still with us.

Sox propose to immortalize Carl Yastrzemski

Donna Goodison

 

The Boston Red Sox are planning to immortalize Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski with a statue outside Fenway Park.

 

The proposed “Last at Bat” statue — of which an artist’s rendering was submitted to the city and obtained by the Herald — depicts Yaz holding a bat aloft in one hand and waving his helmet in the other.

 

Yastrzemski retired from the Red Sox in 1983, after playing his entire 23-year professional baseball career with the team as a left fielder and first baseman.

 

The Red Sox want to place the Yastrzemski statue on Van Ness Street, between the statues of Ted Williams and “The Teammates” — Williams’ 1940s teammates Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr and Dom DiMaggio.

 

Red Sox spokeswoman Zineb Curran confirmed the organization was in discussions with the city to erect the Yastrzemski statue on the sidewalk.

 

The team’s plans come after a Yastrzemski fan launched a Facebook page in 2011 in support of a Yaz statue at Fenway. The page has garnered more than 1,250 “likes.”

 

Yastrzemski, who is now 73 years old, could not be reached for comment.

- See more at: http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/07/sox_propose_to_immortalize_carl_yastrzemski#sthash.dbphTPnJ.dpuf

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This is a great idea. Without question Yaz is one of the all time greats in Sox history and one of the best defensive left fielders in in history of the game. Do it.
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They should have a statue just for that '67 triple crown year. Dick Williams said that was the best year he ever saw a player have.
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If you saved enough bread wrappers, you got a Yaz hat. I had mine until a couple of years ago.

 

Hey Ted, I'm a little embarrassed to even say this but I was once a big Yaz phobe----just didn't like anything about him. But then I wasn't a Red Sox fan, rooted against them when they played the Cards, Reds and Mets in the WS back in '67, '75, and (save me from a lynch mob) '86. I was then a National League fan incarnate. It was only when I became a Red Sox fan in the summer of 2000 did my opinion of him change. (August 19th will be 13 years since I came over to the sunny side of the street, but I will be in Ireland on that date so congrats from my pals here will have to be postponed until I get back on the 26th). I've done a lot of research on Yaz since then and have come to admire him as a true Red Sox icon. Amazing how you see things differently when you're in the house as compared to when you're in the dark zone. Anyway, kudos to the Red Sox for such a great idea of a statue of the guy. BTW, my wife, never a Red Sox fan, was always an AL fan since she loves the Angels and always boasted how she really like Yaz, one of her favorite players. Well I finally came on board.

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^ I've loved Yaz my entire life so the above post makes me uncomfortable.

 

Why do you have to be so negative all the time? People have the right to let their sports allegiances blow whichever way the wind takes them.

 

Me? I'm a Pirates fan! Iron City for life! Go buckos! Andy Van Slyke was sick...

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Hey Ted, I'm a little embarrassed to even say this but I was once a big Yaz phobe----just didn't like anything about him. But then I wasn't a Red Sox fan, rooted against them when they played the Cards, Reds and Mets in the WS back in '67, '75, and (save me from a lynch mob) '86. I was then a National League fan incarnate. It was only when I became a Red Sox fan in the summer of 2000 did my opinion of him change. (August 19th will be 13 years since I came over to the sunny side of the street, but I will be in Ireland on that date so congrats from my pals here will have to be postponed until I get back on the 26th). I've done a lot of research on Yaz since then and have come to admire him as a true Red Sox icon. Amazing how you see things differently when you're in the house as compared to when you're in the dark zone. Anyway, kudos to the Red Sox for such a great idea of a statue of the guy. BTW, my wife, never a Red Sox fan, was always an AL fan since she loves the Angels and always boasted how she really like Yaz, one of her favorite players. Well I finally came on board.
I was always a big Yaz fan. He was one of the two greatest athletes in the history of Long Island. Yaz was a legendary iconfrom Suffolk County, Long Island while jim Brown was all everything in neighboring Nassau County. Boston was always a tough town for it's baseball stars. Yaz had the press and the fans on his back for several years until people started to realize what he had done for the franchise and how hard he worked. He was looked upon as an outsider in the beginning of his career, but he eventually became a Boston/New England fixture and a big part of its folklore.
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^ I've loved Yaz my entire life so the above post makes me uncomfortable.

 

If my post makes you "uncomfortable" it doesn't take much to shake your tree. Of course, I wonder what part of that made you uncomfortable, the fact that I once didn't like Yaz or the fact that I like him now. Please take all the time you need to answer.

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I just wanted to say that the one statue that needs to be created is of Bubby Brister. Get it together Pittsburgh!
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Why do you have to be so negative all the time? People have the right to let their sports allegiances blow whichever way the wind takes them.

 

Me? I'm a Pirates fan! Iron City for life! Go buckos! Andy Van Slyke was sick...

 

That's the spirit kid. Now can root for the Lakers in basketball and the Jets in football. Take your loyalty anywhere you choose, just like all the places where you have hung your hat.

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If my post makes you "uncomfortable" it doesn't take much to shake your tree. Of course, I wonder what part of that made you uncomfortable, the fact that I once didn't like Yaz or the fact that I like him now. Please take all the time you need to answer.

 

Saying you were a Yaz phobe indicates you were afraid of him. I'm not sure why you constantly have to remind everyone that you used to hate and root against the Red Sox. Most of us don't know how that feels or wants to.

 

He is such a beloved Red Sox player admired by many folks who weren't Red Sox fans because he was that good. You didn't like anything about him? I find that strange.

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Saying you were a Yaz phobe indicates you were afraid of him. I'm not sure why you constantly have to remind everyone that you used to hate and root against the Red Sox. Most of us don't know how that feels or wants to.

 

He is such a beloved Red Sox player admired by many folks who weren't Red Sox fans because he was that good. You didn't like anything about him? I find that strange.

 

You know what VA? You are right on this time. Linda always liked him and couldn't understand why I didn't, but you are wrong when you say I hated the Red Sox. I didn't; just didn't for them when they played in those WS. I was a NL fan until I came in out of the rain.....if I can use that expression and I have tried like hell since then to be as rabid and insane a Red Sox fan as I could be. Hell, I even get you and others upset because I come over the top when things go poorly. Suffice to say, if I knew then what I knew now I would be like the rest of you here. Whatever you may think of me, please be advised that I now live and die with the team and when they lose I actually walk the floor at night from time to time in total frustration. BTW, that was a good retort by you.

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Above are some of the photos that I found from Yaz Day in 1983. The camera that I used was a good camera, but not state of the art for 1983. I had the aperture readings wrong and it was an overcast day. Add that to the fact that I am not a very talented photographer and this is what you get. I tried to put them in chronological order. He came out of the dugout took a few waves and bows. He gave a speech and then he ran around the ballpark. I also was careful to get a picture of a budding star playing 3B that day --# 26 Wade Boggs. All in all, it was a very cool day. I will try my best to be there when they unveil the statue.

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