Happy 80th Birthday Captain Carl Yastrzemski!

[a700hitter]

Happy 80th to the man who gave birth to Red Sox Nation! A man called Yaz.

 

[S5Dewey]

And now his grandson is playing in the Giant's Org. Time flies.

[dgalehouse]

And now his grandson is playing in the Giant's Org. Time flies.

 

And playing very well , I might add .

[Bellhorn04]

And playing very well , I might add .

 

Incredibly well. Great to see.

 

Happy 80th birthday Yaz.

[Slasher9]

bet he could hit one of these baseballs into the bullpen.....

[oldtimer]

I remember being in the sky boxes one day when both Yaz and Reggie Smith has a chance to tie or win the game with a single hit, even a fly ball would have helped. They were competitive with each other that day and both weren't cheated at bat with big swings, typical of JBJ sometimes. Both did nothing and I remember we lost the game. Yaz was a great player, but even the great ones let you down at times.

[notin]

I remember being in the sky boxes one day when both Yaz and Reggie Smith has a chance to tie or win the game with a single hit, even a fly ball would have helped. They were competitive with each other that day and both weren't cheated at bat with big swings, typical of JBJ sometimes. Both did nothing and I remember we lost the game. Yaz was a great player, but even the great ones let you down at times.

 

Too many remember him solely for popping out to Graig Nettles to end the 1978 season. Why no one remembers his home run off Ron Guidry earlier in that game is beyond me. Especially since the 39yo Yaz became only the second lefty to homer off Guidry that season...

[notin]

bet he could hit one of these baseballs into the bullpen.....

 

In Fenway? Maybe not. At Yankee Stadium? Absolutely...

[harmony]

I have great respect for Carl Yastrzemski although the Red Sox great contributed to one of the sadder moments of my childhood.

 

In 1967 my Minnesota Twins had a one-game lead over the Red Sox entering a two-game, season-ending weekend series at Fenway Park. Yastrzemski entered the series tied for the American League home run lead with my childhood hero, Harmon Killebrew.

 

The Red Sox swept the two games to advance to the World Series while Yaz and Killebrew each homered in the Saturday game to share the home run title in Yastrzemski's Triple Crown season.

[illinoisredsox]

The radio crew was saying that Yaz plans to be at Fenway when the Giants come in next month.

[moonslav59]

I remember my little sister couldn't say his name.

 

She pronounced it, "Yaz-mic-stem-ski."

 

 

[FredLynn]

Happy 80th to the man who gave birth to Red Sox Nation! A man called Yaz.

 

 

Strangely enough, I have the same birthday as Yaz.....have had it all my life.

[notin]

Strangely enough, I have the same birthday as Yaz.....have had it all my life.

 

So you share a birthday with Yaz and a name with Fred Lynn?

[Bellhorn04]

Too many remember him solely for popping out to Graig Nettles to end the 1978 season. Why no one remembers his home run off Ron Guidry earlier in that game is beyond me. Especially since the 39yo Yaz became only the second lefty to homer off Guidry that season...

 

Yaz also had an RBI single off Gossage in the 8th inning of that game.

 

On a sadder note, Yaz also made the last out in the 1975 World Series.

[YastrzemskI]

I’m late to the party but yes.. a great player and one of the toughest to ever play. One of my favorite athletes.

[jad]

Too many remember him solely for popping out to Graig Nettles to end the 1978 season. Why no one remembers his home run off Ron Guidry earlier in that game is beyond me. Especially since the 39yo Yaz became only the second lefty to homer off Guidry that season...

 

Ha! For me, the reason is that I was going to school in NYC and had no radio or tv. I just happened to walk into a lobby where there was a tv (I think it was the NYState theatre, ... but why would they have a tv?). Yaz up, so I watched THE pop-up--the only play of that game I saw. (I fully admit, that this memory sounds suspicious! and may well be manufactured.)