Backwards K Pod; YAZ

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For 50 years, from 1939-1989, Red Sox Nation had three successive Hall Of Famers guarding the Green Monster of Fenway, out in left-field, Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice.

With the Splendid Splinter’s story already in our collection, and with Rice on the horizon. This week we take a deep dive into the life and career, of the man New Englanders would affectionately call Yaz.

The two things the Polish immigrant Yastrzemski family knows is growing potatoes and playing baseball.

Under the omnipresent and watchful tutelage of his father and uncles, Yaz would rise from the farm to Cooperstown, with a dominant 23 year baseball career for the Red Sox, as one of the greatest all around left-fielders who ever lived.

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