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.