Carl Yastrzemski

Classic SI Photos of Carl Yastrzemski | Sports Illustrated

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The photos in this gallery are not meant to represent "the best" pictures made by LIFE's photographers that year. Instead, in their variety of style and theme, they illustrate the fluid, volatile new world that countless millions were struggling to come to grips with, and to safely navigate, throughout the charged days, weeks and months of that long, strange year of '67.

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b.MAY 17,1932:Ozzie Virgil:"I can still remember my blood streaming furiously through my veins and adrenaline almost choking me on my first day in the majors...It was very hot, and we were playing the last game of a series of three against Phila.I was placed on third base and went 0-for-4,but I felt as if I'd finished 4-for-4...I knew I would be the first of my small country to arrive in the best baseball league in the world. But what I never suspected was that in time,it would become…

San Francisco Giants rookie Mike Yastrzemski homered in his first game at Boston's Fenway Park, where his grandfather Carl, the Red Sox icon, played for 23 seasons of his Hall of Fame career.

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