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Yastrzemski (Icons of Major League Baseball) |  | Author: Carl Yastrzemski
Publisher: Rugged Land
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 796544
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Har/DVD
Pages: 246
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 1590710894
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357092
EAN: 9781590710890
ASIN: 1590710894
Publication Date: June 3, 2007
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Product Description
An inspiring 23-year baseball odyssey laid bare, from one of the greatest hitters to play the game. When the season was on the line, Carl Yastrzemski made history. No New Englander who lived through the summer of 1967 will ever forget Yaz single-handedly powering the also-ran Red Sox through the tightest race ever--winning the American League pennant on the final day of the season. Leading the league in batting average, home runs and RBIs that year, Yaz became the last player to win baseball's Triple Crown. Now Yaz tells the very personal story of one of the most prolific and eventful careers in baseball. From Ted Williams to Carlton Fisk, from the "Impossible Dream" season to the Greatest Game Ever Played, Yastrzemski's story is filled with the greatest players and most exciting moments in baseball history.
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 Best book on Yaz December 14, 2008
David W. Woodard (Clinton, Maine USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Carl Yastrzemski is my all-time favorite baseball player. My son bought me this book for Christmas last year. It is the most complete book that I've read about Yaz. Nice illustrations and the perfect coffee table book for all Yaz fans. My life-long dream is to meet Yaz.......who knows, maybe some day?
Yaz Connects Yet Again! July 2, 2008
JR Parz (United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Carl Yastrzemski has always fascinated me. I was in awe of him as a child, astounded by him as a young man. This is the third autobiography I have read of his, and I wasn't the least bit disappointed. Great work, Yaz - for I'll always salute you. AND as a bonus, there is a disc. Some clips I had never seen which included clips from both the 67 & the 70 allstar game!
A must for Red Sox fans December 29, 2007
Robert Mcneil (Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
One thing that's great about being a Red Sox fan is the huge selection of books about the team and its players. Here is a new autobiography of Yaz, apparently all in his own words since no co-author is listed. It's a very admirable package. The book is nicely written, capturing Yaz's development as a player and all the key moments in his career, a career highlighted by the memorable 1967 and 1975 seasons. Like Ted Williams before him, Yaz's individual achievements were enormous but the highest achievements of the teams he played for consisted only of near-misses. His greatest legacy, perhaps, is that he was a player who gave it everything he had, day in and day out, and made the utmost of his ability. Yaz confesses that he did not enjoy playing baseball so much as it was something that consumed him.
The collection of photographs in this book are the best I have seen in any baseball book, large, high-quality pictures spanning the period from the early days of baseball right up to Yaz's retirement. Many of the shots come from Sports Illustrated magazine.
As for the DVD, I can't give it any points for being well-organized. The clips are thrown together haphazardly with no narration to hold them together. Nonetheless there are some vintage moments captured, from Yaz's homers in the 1967 World Series to his emotional farewell at Fenway. It's hard to believe that farewell came 24 years ago.
YAZ - MY FAVORITE BALLPLAYER July 27, 2007
Mark (Toronto, Ontario)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I'm writing this review at a time when (1) Michael Vick has just been indicted for hosting dog fighting events (2) Mr. "I Didn't Know I Was Taking Steroids" Barry Bonds is on the threshold of breaking Hank Aaron's all time home run record (3) riders in the Tour de France are dropping like flies thanks to positive drug tests (4) NFL player Pacman Jones is under investigation for his involvement in a fight in Las Vegas that involved firearms and left one man paralyzed and a few other scandals that I just can't recall right now.
Carl Yastrzemski reminds me of a time - an era when the game and sports in general wasn't so "corrupted" by money. Of course, baseball, and every other sport has ALWAYS been a business, but money was, in my opinion, always a secondary thing. Now it seems, an athlete sees his sport as nothing more than a stepping stone to a lucrative endorsement contract. And sponsors couldn't give a damn about the character of the player who's pitching their product. The athlete could be an axe-murdering child molester for all NIKE cares - as long as he sells lots of running shoes for the company.
I came of age in the 60's and glommed onto the Boston Red Sox (despite living in southern California) as my favorite team at a very young age. And Yaz quickly became my favorite player.
I guess what I admired about him was the fact that he may not have been as gifted as some other players of the era or been blessed with incredible athletic prowess, but he worked very, very hard at his craft and always gave 100% effort. A consumate professional.
And for those of us who were around in the summer of 1967, who could possibly forget Yaz's contribution to the Impossible Dream when he practically single-handedly carried the Red Sox to the pennent and the World Series. Yes - it was painful to watch them lose to the Cardinals and Bob Gibson in game 7, but they did their best and what more could you ask of an athlete.
Again, in an era when you have the likes of Terrell Owens or Randy Moss or countless other snivelling, whining little millionaire athletes complaining about everything,it's nice to be able to look back at the career of a man like Yaz and know that there were - and still are - some athletes who took / take their responsibilities as both a player and role model very seriously.
Yaz was not only a Hall of Fame ball player, he was a Hall of Fame human being.
Carl, thanks for all of the great memories and thrills you provided to me and countless other Red Sox fans - we'll never forget you..!!
 Thanks for the Memories, Yaz! July 25, 2007
C. W. Emblom (Ishpeming, Michigan USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
The late great sports writer of the Los Angeles Times, Jim Murray, once said, "You don't pronounce the name Yastrzemski, you sneeze it." The format of this book is great. It has several colored photographs with sufficient text material to keep youngsters interested who may be turned off by too much reading material. The accompanying DVD also provides the reader with highlights to add to the text. An interesting part of the DVD is the Carl Yastrzemski song which was recorded on The Impossible Dream LP record following the 1967 season. Here, on the DVD, however, the song is shortened from the original. Why only four stars? The book needed more careful editing. Page 138 mentions "Don" McAuliffe of the Detroit Tigers who ended up the 1967 season by grounding into his one and only double play of the season. The correct name, of course, should be Dick McAuliffe. In other instances just last names of opposing players are often used which made me think that perhaps the first name had been forgotten. Page 197 has a misprint stating, "The guy who led the club in winds in '77 was Bill Campbell..." Obviously the correct word would be wins. Page 237 begins the page with the capital letter "Y" in a box for the first word of "The." These were careless errors that should have been caught by a proofreader. I may sound picky, but the book rates a strong four stars with me. A great lesson for youngsters in this book is that, although Yaz and other athletes have ability, they still have to struggle and work hard to become the player they are. You don't simply show up and play the game. I know of three former Little Leaguers of mine from the 1970's who were big Yaz fans and are going to receive this as a gift. If you know of a young baseball fan treat him to this book, he'll love both the photos and text, and let him learn about a true sports hero. Our young people certainly need them.
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