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Article: Carl Yastrzemski: the last batter to capture Triple Crown: it's been 41 years since a hitter led his league in homers, RBI and batting average, a feat accomplished only 14 times in baseball history.(Turn Back The Clock ... 1967)
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- Baseball Digest
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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CARL YASTRZEMSKI DIDN'T KNOW he made history until he read about it in the newspaper the next day.
The son of a Long Island potato farmer was too wrapped up in the tight 1967 pennant race, strange territory for a Red Sox team that finished ninth in the American League the previous two seasons.
So when he turned to an inside page of his Monday paper--the headline about Boston's first pennant in 21 years was on Page 1--he saw the news: Yaz wins Triple Crown.
"I had no reaction," he says now, more than 40 years later. "I was ecstatic about the World Series and the pennant."
With each passing season, the scope of his accomplishment grows. ...