Happy Anniversary. Capt. Carl

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Yaz debuted 59 years ago today. He went 1 for 5, a single, with 2K's and a CS.
 

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Bill Russell also scored 30 points and had 38 rebounds as the Celtics won their 4th title.

One of the great things about WAR is the appreciation of Yastrzemski’s 1968 season. During the season in Boston Ken Harrelson was seen as the team MVP. Yaz BRef WAR: 10.2; Hawk WAR: 5.0.
 

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Rebounds were not the same back then though. No, Russell’s (and Wilt’s) rebounding stats were insane.
There were only eight occasions when a player had 38 rebounds in 1960-61, five by Wilt and three by Russell. So it was still notable. And yes all stats were different in the past, but Wilt and Russell’s rebounding stats were insane in part because they were insane.
 

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To bring things back to the topic: Carl was thrown out trying to steal second in the game. The Athletics' catcher who gunned him down? Haywood Sullivan!
 

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Yaz is still the best fielding left fielder I ever saw. Talking about the 1960s Yaz. He played left like a shortstop with the Wall as his backstop. Sox went from Ted Williams picking his nose in left to a kid who ran and dove and threw like very few before him. Or since. He was as good in left as Willie Mays was in center.

Name me a better defensive LF than the early Yaz.
 

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Some good ol' fashion baseball, and a bit of b ball knowledge thrown in too.
 

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Yaz is still the best fielding left fielder I ever saw. Talking about the 1960s Yaz. He played left like a shortstop with the Wall as his backstop. Sox went from Ted Williams picking his nose in left to a kid who ran and dove and threw like very few before him. Or since. He was as good in left as Willie Mays was in center.

Name me a better defensive LF than the early Yaz.
I'm with you (though I never actually saw him other than on tape). The incredible thing about it is he had zero experience in the outfield prior to 1960 (when they moved him to LF in the minors to be Ted's heir apparent). He was a middle infielder growing up and that's what he was signed as out of Notre Dame. Yet he was playing the wall masterfully from pretty much day one. Emblematic of his athleticism and his work ethic.
 

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The cradle of the game.
Yaz is still the best fielding left fielder I ever saw. Talking about the 1960s Yaz. He played left like a shortstop with the Wall as his backstop. Sox went from Ted Williams picking his nose in left to a kid who ran and dove and threw like very few before him. Or since. He was as good in left as Willie Mays was in center.

Name me a better defensive LF than the early Yaz.
Or later Yaz as well. Even as a 36 year-old, Yaz was downright CATLIKE in LF. Goes from a full sprint in one direction, to throwing a dart in the other in an absolute minimum of time (taken from the other thread):

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux9q6ttaT_M
 

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He had such a great defensive series in that ALCS, and what's amazing is that he had played only 8 games in the outfield during the regular season.

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He had two assists while his counterpart in LF, Claudell Washington, had two errors.
 

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