Card of the Week

The Summer of '67. Having been a Yankee fan most of my childhood this was kind of hard for me to do back in 1967. It was a busy summer. We were living in Baton Rouge and in mid-August we moved back to Centerville, UT. I started 7th grade at the junior high with very few acquaintances. But I had Yaz. This was the summer that the last batting Triple Crown was accomplished in major league baseball. Carl Yastrzemski led the American League in batting average, runs batted in and in home runs. To be fair he tied in home runs with the Minnesota Twin's player Harmon Killebrew. My son in law would never let me live it down if I didn't make that clear, he being a die hard Twins fan. It was something that September. I got up every morning just a bit early for school to read the paper and see what Yaz had done the day before. It was nip and tuck going into the last Series of the Season. Incredibly the Twins and Red Sox played the last series in Fenway Park. It was a kinetic atmosphere to see if Yaz could hang on and do it. The year before Frank Robinson won the Triple Crown for the Baltimore Orioles, so to have two people do it in successive years would be quite a thing. He did it and it hasn't been done since--43 years. The Sox went to the World Series against the Cards. It was a 7 game Series but even with Yaz and Cy Young winner Jim Lonborg on their side it was tough to overcome an incredible Bob Gibson and a pretty well rounded Cardinals team. Card of the week is Yaz and if you want to learn who else has done this and the pitching Triple Crown winners you can go here.