As Boston's unofficial batting instructor during 1967, Doerr worked with Carl Yastrzemski to convert the seven-year veteran from an opposite-field " doubles " hitter who had never before hit more than 20 homers in a season to a pull-hitting slugger who belted 44 home runs and won the Triple Crown and AL Most Valuable Player award that season.

* Games: Carl Yastrzemski, 3308

In addition to winning the 1966 MVP, Robinson also won the Triple Crown ( leading the American League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in ), a feat also achieved the following season by Boston's Carl Yastrzemski but never since.

Yastrzemski, who had studied business at Notre Dame, fulfilled a promise to his parents by finishing his degree at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., in 1966.

Yastrzemski made the final out in Game 7 on a fly out to center, trailing by one run.

Yastrzemski was the first player to ever collect over 3, 000 hits and 400 home runs solely in the American League ; the feat has since been accomplished by Cal Ripken Jr ..

A record album of the Red Sox's 1967 season, aptly titled " The Impossible Dream ", featured a song by DJ Jess Cain of praise for " The man they call Yaz ", which included the line " Although ' Yastrzemski ' is a lengthy name / It fits quite nicely in our Hall of Fame.

Carl Yastremski's son Mike Yastrzemski was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the third round in 1984 and eventually played for the White Sox Triple-A affiliate.

Approximately one month later, Carl Yastrzemski reached the same plateau and was promptly invited to the White House by Massachusetts Congressman Tip O ' Neill.

Robinson's 23 seasons with one team set a new major league record, since tied by Carl Yastrzemski.

Typically the greatest hitters for a combination of power and OBP on their teams bat third, as is shown by the use of such hitters as Babe Ruth, Mel Ott, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Barry Bonds, Mickey Mantle, Carl Yastrzemski, Albert Pujols, Joey Votto, Miguel Cabrera, Josh Hamilton, Evan Longoria, Jose Bautista, and Hank Aaron in this position in the lineup.

photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran Carl Yastrzemski

In an era dominated by pitching, Yastrzemski was the only player in the American League to hit for an average higher than. 300 in.

Throughout his Red Sox career, Greenwell suffered under the weight of lofty expectations for a Boston left fielder, as since 1940 the position had been occupied by Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice – all MVP winners, regular triple crown candidates, and eventual members of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

On the closing weekend of the season, led by Yastrzemski and 22-game-winning pitcher Jim Lonborg, Boston defeated the Twins in two head-to-head games, while Detroit split its series with the Angels.

they were amassing talent ( including African-American players such as outfielder Reggie Smith, first baseman George Scott and third baseman Joe Foy ) who would lead them to an improbable AL pennant in 1967, aided and abetted by 21-game winner Jim Lonborg and the last Triple Crown winner in the major leagues, Carl Yastrzemski.

Bench was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1989 alongside Carl Yastrzemski.

Carl Michael Yastrzemski (; nicknamed " Yaz "; born August 22, 1939 ) is a former American Major League Baseball left fielder and first baseman.

In, Yastrzemski ranked number 72 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players.

* Carl Yastrzemski biography at the Society for American Baseball Research

Miguel Cabrera the first player since 1967 to enter the final week of the season with chance of winning baseball's first Major League Baseball Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski.

* Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Carl Yastrzemski, Major League Baseball

* Carl Yastrzemski ( 1939 -), former member of the Boston Red Sox and a Major League Baseball hall of famer.

* Carl Yastrzemski, a long-time member of the Boston Red Sox and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

Cabrera is the first player since Carl Yastrzemski, who won in 1967, to enter the final week of the season leading in all three Major League Baseball Triple Crown categories.

* Carl Yastrzemski, Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player who played for the Red Sox.

Adair was a. 254 hitter for his career ( Carl Yastrzemski wrote in his autobiography ' Baseball, The Wall, and Me ' " That man was one of the coolest clutch hitters I had seen "), and was able to hang around for thirteen seasons on the strength of a fantastic glove.

Gedman made his debut for the Sox in September 1980, pinch-hitting for Carl Yastrzemski.

A few of the many Carolina League players who have gone on to star in the Major Leagues are: Johnny Bench ( Peninsula, 1966 ), Wade Boggs ( Winston-Salem, 1977 ), Barry Bonds ( Prince William, 1985 ), Rod Carew ( Wilson, 1966 ), Dock Ellis ( Kinston, 1965 ), Dwight Evans ( Winston-Salem, 1971 ), Dwight Gooden ( Lynchburg, 1983 ), Andruw Jones ( Durham, 1996 ), Chipper Jones ( Durham, 1992 ), Willie McCovey ( Danville, 1956 ), Joe Morgan ( Durham, 1963 ), Dave Parker ( Salem, 1972 ), Tony Pérez ( Rocky Mount, 1962 ), Andy Pettitte ( Prince William, 1993 ), Jorge Posada ( Prince William, 1993 ), Darryl Strawberry ( Lynchburg, 1981 ), Bernie Williams ( Prince William, 1988 ), and Carl Yastrzemski ( Raleigh, 1959 ).

Walker barely missed becoming the first Triple Crown winner in baseball since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967.

Later on, he helped pass this expertise to the left-fielder Carl Yastrzemski of the Red Sox.

After retirement from play, Williams helped new left fielder Carl Yastrzemski in hitting.

However, he died suddenly of a massive heart attack on March 16, 1971, eight days before his 69th birthday, while vacationing with friend Dwayne Andreas in Miami, Florida, following a round of golf with Boston Red Sox player Carl Yastrzemski.

Carl Yastrzemski would be the only American League hitter to finish the season with a batting average higher than. 300.

In the late 1970s he was part of one of the sport's great outfields along with Fred Lynn and Dwight Evans, who was his teammate for his entire career ; Rice continued the tradition of his predecessors Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski as a power-hitting left fielder who played his entire career for the Red Sox.

Yastrzemski is an 18-time All-Star, the possessor of seven Gold Gloves, a member of the 3000 hit club, and the first American League player in that club to also accumulate over 400 home runs.

In, Yastrzemski achieved a peak in his career, leading the Red Sox to the American League pennant for the first time in over two decades, in that season being voted the American League MVP, and being the most recent winner of the triple crown for batters in the major leagues.

Yastrzemski was born in Southampton, New York to Carl Yastrzemski, Sr. and Hattie Skonieczny.

His Notre Dame teammates nicknamed Yastrzemski " Murph ," in an ironic bid to impute an Irish flavor despite his obvious Polish origins.

Yastrzemski signed with the Red Sox organization, which sent him to the minor-league Raleigh Capitals in, where he led the league with a. 377 batting average, They then moved him to the Minneapolis Millers for the post-season and the season.

Yastrzemski began his major-league career in.

In 12 years as a left fielder, Yastrzemski won seven Gold Gloves and led in assists seven times.

Yastrzemski enjoyed his best season in, when he won the American League Triple Crown with a. 326 batting average, 44 home runs ( tied with Harmon Killebrew ) and 121 RBIs.

With the Red Sox battling as part of a four-team pennant race, Yastrzemski hit. 513 ( 23 hits in 44 at bats ) with five home runs and 16 runs batted in over the last two weeks of the season, and finished a mere one game ahead of the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins.