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Old 10-21-2013, 05:44 PM
Dru Edwards Dru Edwards is offline
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Originally Posted by guitargarden View Post
As a child, my favorite player was Carl Yastrzemski. I was hundreds of miles away at college on the day he played his last game at Fenway Park. Those were the days before the Internet. My mom sent me the special section from The Boston Globe honoring him.
Yaz was my father's favorite player. I watched him numerous times on tv when I was a kid, including his last game. He was one of my favorites too. Think about it ... the Red Sox had 3 left fielders that lasted for decades - Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, and Jim Rice and all of them won MVPs.
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