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...Carl Yastrzemski...
...Carl Yastrzemski retried with more than 3000 hits and 400 home runs, making him the only American League player to reach both plateaus (Willie Mays and Henry Aaron both did it in the NL). Which AL player narrowly missed becoming they first, finishing his career with more than 3000 hits but 399 homers...
...Ebbets Field, and just as he is giving up a double to Sam Mele, who should happen by in a Red Sox suit but Mele. This is the charm of spring training. Ted Williams is studying Clemens from the rightfield bullpen and slowly working his wrists. Carl Yastrzemski looks up from giving instructions to a nonroster player in a distant batting cage. And sitting in the stands, smiling softly under a baseball cap, is Cecil ("Tex") Hughson, 68, the Red Sox pitching phenom of the '40s, who wore...
...year. This appears unlikely. Frankly, his seventh big-league uniform, bright yellow with black stripes, is not his particular favorite. "I feel like a school bus with lips," he says. But he expresses no self-consciousness trying out at 45. "All of us can't leave like Carl Yastrzemski or Johnny Bench," he says. "I don't feel like a one-dimensional person, but I just want to play. Pete Rose wants 200 more hits, but I just want to face one more batter, experience that wonderful anxiety one more time, and then one more time after that...
...President. Should Ronald Reagan be reelected, the Massachusetts Representative said, he would stay on to fight the good fight as Speaker at least through 1986. Might Reagan make a grand gesture and ship Tip off to the Emerald Isle himself ? Not likely. Last week newborn Boston Sportscaster Carl Yastrzemski asked...