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 played his entire 23-year baseball career with the Boston Red Sox ( 1961 – 1983 ).

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.

In the 1975 All-Star Game, Yastrzemski was called to pinch-hit in the sixth inning, with two men on base and the American League down 3-0.

Earlier in the game, however, Yastrzemski began the scoring with a home run off left-handed pitcher Ron Guidry, who was having a career year ( 25 wins, 3 loses and a 1. 74 ERA ).

In addition, Yastrzemski only trails Ty Cobb in hits collected with a single team, and trails only Cobb and Tris Speaker in hits collected playing in the American League, both of whom played before World War II.

Along with Johnny Pesky, Yastrzemski raised the 2004 World Series championship banner over Fenway Park.

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

Also, it is not required to be the sole leader in each category ; for example, Yastrzemski is considered to have won the Triple Crown in 1967 even though he was only tied with Harmon Killebrew for the league lead in home runs.

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.

In 1968, Denny McLain won 31 games and Bob Gibson had a 1. 12 ERA, while Carl Yastrzemski led the American League in hitting with a. 301 average.

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

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.

On October 2,, he earned the save in the Yankees ' one-game playoff against the Boston Red Sox for the AL East title, entering with one out in the seventh inning and a 4-2 lead following Bucky Dent's home run ; although he allowed two runs in the eighth inning, he held on to preserve the 5-4 victory, getting Carl Yastrzemski to pop up to third baseman Graig Nettles with two out and two men on base in the ninth inning to clinch the division championship.

Flick was the AL batting champion in with a. 308 average ; in Major League history, only Carl Yastrzemski won a batting title with a lower mark (. 301 in 1968 ).

* Second player in Red Sox history, joining Carl Yastrzemski, with 3 seasons of 40 or more home runs

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

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.

In, Yastrzemski enjoyed the first of two consecutive 40-home run seasons as he led the Red Sox to third-place finishes that year and the next.

Yastrzemski and the Red Sox would suffer another World Series loss in, losing four games to three to the Cincinnati Reds.

The Red Sox retired this number on August 6, 1989 after Yastrzemski was elected to the Hall of Fame.

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 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

She was a fan of the Boston Red Sox and of fellow Polish-American Carl Yastrzemski.

Pitching in his home town, Fidrych gave up a home run to Red Sox legend Carl Yastrzemski.

After Varitek's re-signing, the Red Sox appointed him to be the third team captain in franchise history, following hall of famers Carl Yastrzemski (–) and Jim Rice (–).

On May 21, Ortiz became only the fifth player to hit 300 home runs as a member of the Red Sox, joining Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice, and Dwight Evans.

Only Carl Yastrzemski ( 3308 ) played more games for the Red Sox than Evans ( 2505 ).

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

In addition, he received the Cy Young Award ( becoming the first pitcher in Red Sox history to win the Cy Young Award ), played in the All-Star game, and finished prominently in voting for the MVP award ( 6th in the voting, Yastrzemski winning the award ).

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.

Lindsey attends, but not being a baseball or Red Sox fan, she knows nothing about the Curse of the Bambino or even how to pronounce the name Yastrzemski.

The Red Sox came up with experienced players as Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk and Dwight Evans, and two sensational rookies — Fred Lynn and Jim Rice.

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.

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

Two players have won the award for a game in which their league lost: Brooks Robinson in 1966 and Carl Yastrzemski in 1970.

In the second inning of that game, Guidry himself had given up a home run to Carl Yastrzemski — the only home run a left-hander would hit against him all season.

His. 305 batting average ( also a career-high ), ranked him fourth in the batting crown race behind Carl Yastrzemski (. 321 ), Al Kaline (. 312 ) and Rich Rollins (. 307 ).

Reggie Jackson famously nicknamed him " The Voice of God ", while Carl Yastrzemski once said, " You're not in the big leagues until Bob Sheppard announces your name.