Word: yastrzemski
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scrap baseball history in favor of creature comforts. No matter how well planned or executed, a new park will not hold the history, tradition and purity of the game that live on in the stands and on the field of Fenway. Every visit there holds the echoes of Carl Yastrzemski's 3,000th hit, Carlton Fisk's winning home run in game 6 of the 1975 World Series and Ted Williams' record .406 season. Fenway has been good to players, fans and the sport. It deserves more respect, and a reprieve from the wrecking ball. DAVID CADORETTE Nashua, New Hampshire...
Banks have a decidedly mixed record of informing their customers of inactive accounts. In the early 1980s, Mara says, the Bank of Boston once claimed, for example, that it could not find Carl Yastrzemski to tell him his account was inactive. Yastrzemski, a Hall of Fame baseball player, was widely known to spend many an afternoon in the same place: Fenway Park, where he played left field for the Boston...
...officer, an antiques dealer, several social workers and perhaps a farmer, though farmers are rarer than poets in New Hampshire these days. They were on hand to honor Hall and English words, and even baseball, if that is what was asked. Though some of them probably imagine that Carl Yastrzemski and Ted Williams too still play for the Red Sox, and most of the rest never heard of these heroes...
Shlain's collection of anecdotes covers all the bases. It's just like that tomato sauce commercial: Stories about Charlie Finley's A's? It's in there. A funny Tommy Lasorda tale? It's in there. Goose Gossage's thoughts before getting Carl Yastrzemski to pop out to Graig Nettles, sealing the Red Sox's fate in 1978 (and thrilling this seven-year-old Yankee fan)? You guessed...