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Carl Yastrzemski was an American baseball legend who played his entire 23-year career with the Boston Red Sox. He was an 18-time All-Star, a 7-time Gold Glove winner, and the first American League player in the 3,000 hit club to also hit over 400 home runs. Yastrzemski won the Triple Crown in 1967, leading the Red Sox to the American League pennant for the first time in over two decades.
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Carl Michael Yastrzemski Sr., nicknamed “Yaz”, is an American former professional baseball player who played his entire career with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He started his career primarily as a left fielder, but also played 33 games as a third baseman. Later in his career, he was mainly a first baseman and designated hitter.
Yastrzemski is an 18-time All-Star, the possessor of seven Gold Gloves, a member of the 3,000 hit club, and the first American League player in that club to also accumulate over 400 home runs. He is second on the all-time list for games played, and third for total at-bats. He is the Red Sox’s all-time leader in career RBIs, runs, hits, singles, doubles, total bases, and games played, and is third on the team list for home runs, behind Ted Williams and David Ortiz. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.
In 1967 Yastrzemski achieved a peak in his career, leading the Red Sox to the American League pennant for the first time in over two decades and being voted the 1967 American League MVP. Yastrzemski also won the Triple Crown that year, something not accomplished again in the Major Leagues until Miguel Cabrera did so in 2012.
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Carl Yastrzemski was an American former professional baseball player who played his entire 23-year career with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Carl Yastrzemski was an 18-time All-Star, the possessor of seven Gold Gloves, a member of the 3,000 hit club, and the first American League player in that club to also accumulate over 400 home runs.
Yastrzemski started his career primarily as a left fielder, but also played 33 games as a third baseman. Later in his career, he was mainly a first baseman and designated hitter.
In 1967, Yastrzemski achieved a peak in his career, leading the Red Sox to the American League pennant for the first time in over two decades and being voted the 1967 American League MVP. He also won the Triple Crown that year, something not accomplished again in the Major Leagues until Miguel Cabrera did so in 2012.
Yastrzemski is the Red Sox’s all-time leader in career RBIs, runs, hits, singles, doubles, total bases, and games played, and is third on the team list for home runs, behind Ted Williams and David Ortiz.
Carl Yastrzemski was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.
7 Quotes by Carl Yastrzemski
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This is a strange game.
Carl YastrzemskiAmerican baseball player
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it.
Carl YastrzemskiAmerican baseball player
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I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That’s how I treated my career. I didn’t think I was anybody special, anybody different.
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You don’t always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
Carl YastrzemskiAmerican baseball player
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
Carl YastrzemskiAmerican baseball player
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And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I’ll take the pennant every time.
Carl YastrzemskiAmerican baseball player