Artist’s rendering of the proposed Carl Yastrzemski ‘Last at Bat’ statue.
Posted on 07/27/2013 6:36:01 PM PDT by massmike
The Boston Red Sox are planning to immortalize Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski with a statue outside Fenway Park.
The proposed “Last at Bat” statue — of which an artist’s rendering was submitted to the city and obtained by the Herald — depicts Yaz holding a bat aloft in one hand and waving his helmet in the other.
Yastrzemski retired from the Red Sox in 1983, after playing his entire 23-year professional baseball career with the team as a left fielder and first baseman.
The Red Sox want to place the Yastrzemski statue on Van Ness Street, between the statues of Ted Williams and “The Teammates” — Williams’ 1940s teammates Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr and Dom DiMaggio.
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Artist’s rendering of the proposed Carl Yastrzemski ‘Last at Bat’ statue.
Childhood hero....
Over due.
Great ballplayer.
Should be larger...
He was larger than life as a ball player.
He had the most beautiful swing.
Last Triple Crown winner until Miguel Cabrera. Fact: There have only been 12 Triple Crown Winners. 2 played for the Bosox, 2 played for the Yankees, and 2 played for the Philadephia Athletics....
Yastrzemski, Let go of my Maypo!
In his last 13 years I think he only hit .300 once, and was little more than a decent hitter who split his time between a number of different positions and played a lot of games as the DH in a Boston lineup with one of the best groups of outfielders of any era (Jim Rice, Fred Lynn and Dwight Evans).
I agree that Yastrzemski should have retired earlier. My main memory of him is when he made the final out in the 1978 tie-breaker playoff game with the NY Yankees with a weak in-field pop up.
I remember that memorable moment (among many of them for the Yankees) in the 1978 season. Didn’t he also hit a home run off Ron Guidry earlier in that same game?
I’d advise them to take a little artistic license and have that bat rest against his shoulder. That’s just asking to be sawed off as it is.
He should be holding a beer in one hand.
Yaz could really put them away!
He did hit a homerun earlier in the game. The pop up was after a signature Yaz wicked swing. It was not a weak pop up. It was a legitimate swing and he just missed it. By the way, that same swing yielded 450 homeruns from a 180 pound body in the pre steroid era. There was no one else who should have been at the plate for that last chance.
I was at that last game and witnessed Yaz round around the perimeter of the field to shake anyone”s hand who could reach. After the game he was out on Causeway Street, still in his uniform, to shake anyone’s hand out there who was still around. I remember another incident during the winter after the 1975 loss to the Reds. It was in Worcester when Carl came to deliver a speech in the park in the rear of city hall. He said they would win it all in 1976, and then he went into the lobby of Home Savings to sign autographs. the line went on for blocks and he signed for several hours, all for free. Anyway, it was suggested to him that he could leave through a side door for something to eat, and then never come back. Yaz said he would stay until every last person got their autograph. Carl was great and anyone who claims otherwise doesn’t know what they are talking about.
Yaz and Carlton Fisk were my faves. Was surprised to learn Pudge has a drinking problem. D@mn shame.
http://bustedcoverage.com/2012/10/23/carlton-fisk-gets-dui-at-720-pm-in-illinois-corn-field-mugshot/
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