Carl Yastrzemski is a household name for baseball fans everywhere and for Boston Red Sox fans no matter what their age is. Yaz is as big of a Boston sports hero as they come due to his incredible baseball capabilities and for the fact that he did what he did for 23-years with the same ball club. Any player who stays with one team that long is going to be considered a club legend, but Yaz’s prestige was like few others. A true Boston great.
After the legendary Ted Williams decided to call it a day back in 1960 it seemed an impossible task to fill the shoes of a guy who led the club through a period which saw his career span into four different decades.