Carl Yastrzemski Hits 400th Home Run Fenway Park
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2013
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Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox finally gets his 400th Home Run at Fenway Park against the Oakland A's! "Yaz" hit his historic blast off of Mike Morgan of the Oakland A's on July 24, 1979! Morgan would go on to pitch for anyone and everyone during his long career! - Спорт
This is Tristan Williams from the U.K, and I was there that night. As an exchange student I was working as a sports counselor at Camp Greylock, in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachsetts and we had taken a group from the camp to the game at Fenway Park. The timing was brilliant and I look back now on how fortunate I was to be in attendance on that occasion and to witness such a memorable event!
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I am very happy for you Tristan 🤗, thank you for putting a big smile on this big Boston Red Sox fan ... By the way Carl Yastrzemski is my idol ✌️🇵🇷
That is a great story!
Greetings from the Berkshires, Tristan!! (8 years later…😂)
I was at that game with my parents and grandfather. I still have the ticket stub, Section 14, Box 110, Row DD, Seat 2.....a fond memory....
I was there also...
Yaz, like Aaron, Musial, Mantle, Maris, DiMaggio, Williams and all of the great hitters of 2-3 generations ago knew how to round the bases with CLASS and DIGNITY!!! None of the bat flipping, primordial screams, and gesturing that goes on today. Total respect for the game, opposing pitcher and team. Those guys knew the game was way bigger than any one of their accomplishments!! How I miss watching the game of baseball played right!!
Those guys had a class about them!
So true -
And saddly it applies to all sports -
Today a WR catches a football for a 1st down and he gets all worked up
Yaz had a tremendous impact on millions of fans back in the day. I was sorry to witness him get booed towards the end of the career. He and Pudge, the Gold Dust Twins, Dewey, Rico and the rest of the gang made many people enjoy baseball. Tip of the hat.
Yaz was as big a hero to kids from Boston in the 60’s and 70’s as Bobby Orr! Two legends!!!
Bird debuted the year after Orr retired. So we had all three close to the same time.
@@scottshanahan3827 Wasn't Orr with Chicago by then?
This was a great childhood memory (I had just turned 10 when this happened). Ned Martin & Ken Harrelson were the Red Sox announcers. Not every Red Sox game was televised...so they cut into regular programming on WSBK-TV38 when Yaz came up. They did it for every at bat after he reached 399.
WOW , that was so cool , thank you so much for sharing 👍👍
When Ned Martin died in 2002, I felt like I lost a childhood friend. Great moment at Fenway. The Great Number 8!
I was there...
Damn straight. I remember the ceremony that he was a part of the day before he passed. It always saddened me that Martin never got to see the Sox win a World Series.
They don't build baseball players like this anymore... what a legend!
CommonCentsOutdoorsman, same could be said for many of Yaz's former Red Sox teammates. Jim Rice could've easily gone elsewhere but Yaz convinced him to stay with the Red Sox. Same for a few others also.
And was paid about 70 Grand a year!!!!??
The pressure on this man throughout his career.remember he had to replace Ted Williams
Yaz was as tough as a coffin nail. Yaz played with twisted ankles, Achilles heels, knee issues, back issues, and only missed a handful of games in 23 years. He was a leader to his fellow team players and an inspiration to the Boston and New England area. Ball players all over MLB respected him and he respected them and the game. They don’t make competitors like that anymore.
Not like the GROSSLY OVERPAID 'Players' (Prima Donnas) of today!!!!!!!!
Over $750,000 major league min Not bad for six mo work ! Yikes
I was there. Summer x. Nice little stadium.
I caddied one day at club adios in Boca Raton golf club...he shot 75. Great athlete. It was rainy n I held his cigarettes n then lit em.
We spoke going down 3rd fairway about me seeing the HR that summer. He was a very cool customer that would talk n have a great x with the guys at adios. That was 1996 ish.
Great day ...I have a photographic memory so it's interesting replaying that day .
He told me that #400 had to wait till he went bk to Boston..He wanted it for his fans so he didn't try to hit one on the road with 399.
Long Island NY guy! Love this guy what a class act!
Ralph Castriotta, I always liked Yaz. His dad insisted that he play for the Red Sox and insisted that he devote his MLB career to that team. Yaz wanted to join the Yankees, but he took his dad's advice. The rest is history.
Yaz ! I don't like the Red Sox but when someone is great you have give it to them ! What a great player !
When I was a youth the radio intro was made of highlights that ultimately led to failure: "Petrocelli's back, and the Red Sox win!"... "Homerun number 400 Carl Yastrzemski!"... "And Roger Clemens has set a major league record for strikeouts in a game!"
I remember seeing this on Channel 38...back when they carried 130 games on FREE TV.
Free TV? What's that???
It had a ROOFTOP ANTENNA, and we had to GET UP and TURN A DIAL to change the channel.
+David Lafleche Also, back in those days (1979, not that long ago), 400 home runs really meant something. Nobody was juiced, and pitchers were much better. Almost every team had a 20-game winner, and that was no guarantee of a Cy Young Award (i.e., Dennis Eckersley, 1978: 20-8, 2.99 ERA...not even close). Pitchers usually finished the whole game, and didn't think anything of it. Today, if a pitcher goes nine, that gets headlines! So, yeah, when Yastrzemski got to 400, won three batting titles, etc., he really had to work for that!
He almost won again in 1970, but Alex Johnson beat him out by a few percentage points. Johnson was a right-handed batter, and another one would not win the batting title again until Carney Lansford did in 1981.
David Lafleche I miss those days
We need him in MLB 20! We now had his grandson and he needs to be a new legend in the game
Probably the only time Hawk Harrelson was offered the chance to say something and didn't. (1:18) I remember reading a book in the '70's where Yaz told some pretty tall tales about his youthful athletic exploits. He was a great player, certainly a fixture in the Northeast.
He would have hit about 600 if he'd have played at Yankee Stadium. With today's juiced balls, who knows how many more any of these all time greats could have hit.
I wish I could say that I was there, but:
I went to the game before this, and sat a few rows behind the bullpen -- nearly a perfect spot. The Sox fell behind early in the game, by something like 8 runs, making the outcome of the game a foregone conclusion. Naturally we sat through the whole thing anyway, just hoping Yaz would hit #400, to make our suffering worthwhile. As I remember it, he did get us off our feet in one at bat, with a drive to the warning track, or just shy of it, but the homer didn't happen until the following game.
What was great about Fenway in those days was that you could walk in on the day of the game, and be almost 100% certain that you could buy a ticket. This was true even when they were in contention (as they were at this point in '79) as long as you were willing to sit in the bleachers.
The '79 Sox faded late, playing only around .500 ball over the last 3 months, after a very good start. Yaz did his best to keep things interesting to the end, getting hit #3000 later in the season.
He didn’t beat his chest once. All class.
Saw this in the bleachers with my Dad and sister!!
Me too. I was there.
Only guy for a while with 400 or more HR`S and 300 hits !
3000
@@twinsof86 good one
In the AL yes. Musial did it before in The NL.
My dad grew up with Ted Williams I grew up with Carl Yastrzemski. That's 40 yrs of two players covering left field.
What a beautiful swing! Yaz was awesome!
Yaz was a smart hitter.
As he got older he dropped his hands so he could still turn on fastballs.
At the end of his career, Yaz looked decrepit. Bandages on both wrists, knees, and back brace, stiff as a senior citizen, he'd shuffle up to the plate, his once erect stance now leaned over with droopy bat, could barely run anymore.... Old.
Yaz changed his stance a couple of times. Originally had the bat and hands up high with the left elbow sticking way out and legs straight. Later dropped everything way down and had the bat almost on his shoulder a la Pete Rose. Finally here he tilts the bat forward towards the pitcher and holds his hands more out in front of his body. I sometimes wonder if he had kept the original stance (the power stance) he would have hit a few more dingers.
a true pro and no juice!
The way it's suppose to be ... Yaz was a natural beast 👍👍
only 10 players have won the triple crown in batting, the yaz was the last one to do it in 45 years until miggy in 2012.
I saw it "Live" on TV38 in Boston (why it wasn't a televised game, I have NO idea). They would break into programming for all of Yaz's at bats until he got his 400th. Just imagine a tv station or network doing THAT today?
Most teams didn't televise weeknight home games back then.
Back then I believe WSBK-TV 38 also carried the Bruins and Celtics games so there might’ve been a conflict with them
I believe the Movie Loft was playing a movie, as Ned Martin said there wouldn't be a scene missed.
That's how popular the man they called Yaz was in Boston. That would never happen with a Boston player now.
@@jennifersman7990 No conflict, the game was in July 1979. Both the Bruins and Celtics seasons were done. But you're right, they were showing the Bruins games. Not sure on the Celtics.
Yaz was the greatest.
Awesome ball player
Back when baseball was REAL!
Your point is taken. But this latest WS was an amazing display of grit, will, determination by the Red Sox...Best Sox team ever!!!
The only thing I would say is there are too damn many homeruns being hit. Homeruns are boring as hell.
I grew up in Detroit all my friends were on the Al kaline band wagon in the 60s and 70s not me Carl was my favorite as a kid, even had a Carl yastrzemski baseball board game he had his name on
I was at this game with my grandpa
Awesome event to celebrate!🎇
Life was better then and Yaz was one of the reasons.
I was 9 and lucky enough to be there that night. I still have the ticket stub in a box. Great memory. My other big memory from that night I kept smelling smoke that smelled like a skunk. My first introduction to weed.
I was there... I was 23.
Yaz and Mike Morgan spent some 45 seasons, combined, in the majors. Pretty good if you ask me.
That was a random comparison but okay. More relevant would be left field being covered by two players for 40 yrs at Fenway. My dad grew up watching Ted Williams in left and I grew up watching Yastrzemski in left. And I still can't spell his name without looking it up.
I am watching this on June 16, 2021. I'm going to save this for my grandchildren to watch.
Growing up in that area my top 3 sports hero's are... 3. Doug Flutie..... 2. Bobby Orr..... and number 1... Yaz. I was there the night he crashed into the Monster and hurt himself. You could hear a pin drop.
My childhood hero
Yazzamania!
I don't even smoke, but that Marlboro sign is awesome. Tiger Stadium had that, too. I can't explain why, but somehow that just screams baseball.
Yaz, like Larry Bird, was a guy of average athletic ability, who honed it into superstardom. Both are ultimate overachievers.
NYY fan here. If you were putting together a team of “most clutch, ice in your veins” players, he’s your left fielder. He and Big Papi put fear in yankee fans.
His grandson just hit a HR there.
I remember that like it was yesterday. It was a big deal before we could win World Series.
When you think Red Sox I think Yaz
No 'roid. Saw him hit two in a game at the Big A in Anaheim in '71 or '72.
Did any pitcher ever try to deck Yastrzemski after show-boating around the bases? I doubt it.
A classy man. We miss him and men like him.
Red Sox and Yaz fans likely remember him for his batting stance and arc swing, which is obvious here in this video. If you checked other UA-cam videos of his stance in his earlier years, he did not put his baseball bat in the "arc" position and his stance was more upright. Wonder why this change in the latter part of his career since hitters never alter their stance and swings...
Injuries to his shoulders.
This was an era of channel 56 boston would cut away from a show like Threes Company to broadcast these at bats live. The whole city would stop for a few minutes. I lived and breathed bosox from 1978 to 1990.
Back in the day when the Sox were so bad or disappointing you had to root for stats. Being a Sox fan those first 35 years of my life was frustrating. So grateful for all the success today. Sawks!
Right, first 43 years of my life. The Eddie Kasko years were awful. Then there was 1975, 1978, 1986. Then that playoff game with the A's with John Macnamara where Clemens was ejected. Then there was Aaron Boone.
Check out the video of Yaz's catch in the '69 All-Star game off of Johnny Bench, it's out there somewhere. Just saw it after 50 years of only hearing about it.
I was there...
0:35 "Now listen and watch!" Yes, it was so special then to watch a special moment like this or a winning play and the broadcasters just let the event speak for itself. Now the color commentator has to fill in the time like he's paid by each word he says.
When sports was sports😎
Love Yaz, Ned, the Hawk. Mercy!
Love this.
It must have been such a sweet night at the fens.
Playing ball in the street lways held the bat high like yaz or like Freddy Lynn who pinwheeled the bat and was in a slight couch.
Same here, and I wasn't a lefty, but turned into one.
He and Brooks Robinson have the record for most years with one team, 23. Their entire careers. Brooks was great, but Yaz has him beat in almost everything.
Carl had AT LEAST 50 RBI in every season played, a record for 20+ year players. Not even Hank Aaron did that. Albert Pujols now has 15 total seasons played with at least 50 RBI, and he's never had below 64!
+Robert Anderson That got me thinking about that statistic. I love baseball statistics. Here's what I found:
Carl Yastrzemski 23
Hank Aaron 22
Ty Cobb 21
Cap Anson 20
Barry Bonds 20
Stan Musial 20
Eddie Murray 20
Dave Winfield 20
Cal Ripken 20
Willie Mays 19
Ken Griffey Jr. 19
Frank Robinson 19
Tris Speaker 19
Alex Rodriguez 18
Rafael Palmeiro 18
Honus Wagner 18
Reggie Jackson 18
Harold Baines 18
Nap Lajoie 18
George Brett 18
Al Kaline 18
Willie McCovey 18
All the players with at least 18 seasons with 50 RBIs. Yaz is indeed the only one who did it in every single season. Two came close. Hank Aaron had that last throwaway season with the Brewers where he had 35 RBIs. And Cal Ripken was brought up for 23 games in the 1981 season for the Orioles. I'm not sure Pujols will even crack 18 seasons though. He's clearly on the decline. The only player not in the hall of fame, or kept out due to steroids is Harold Baines.
CapAnson12345 Cool list. Yeah I love the statistical part of the game the most I think.
Hank Aaron does have a record that might not ever be matched though. He had at least 10 Home Runs in all 23 of his seasons. Yaz ALMOST did that. He had 7 Hr in '81, would have had it if not for the strike. Still, 22 of 23 seasons ain't bad. I think Al Kaline did it 21 of 22 seasons, but was no Hank Aaron!
Albert Pujols now has at least 50+ RBI (well 64) and at least 17 HR in all 15 of his seasons, but i do agree, he's slowing down. Just has the Homer power, average is terrible.
Pete Rose had 23 consecutive seasons with 100+ Hits.
Ty Cobb had 23 straight seasons with a .300+ Batting Average.
If you count the National Association (1871-1875), then Cap Anson has the record for most seasons batting .300+ (24).
he probably could have played 2 more years. his bat hadn't slowed down much, and at the very least he could've dh'ed versus righties and ph when needed. he was some player. he wasn't the hitter ted williams was, but ted wasn't in his class as a fielder. i'm not sue any player has ever been more instrumental to his team's successful stretch run than yaz was in 67. he was superhuman.
YAZ was really good, but shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breathe as Hank Aaron.
I wasn't at that game .... just figured Id add that :)
Yaz was the man
i remember that it took a lot of at bats to get this....and a lot of tv interuptions
Greatest left fielder ever!
MissCelticGirl well, actually, there was one better, the THUMPER!!! that Boston fans called THE SPLENDID SPLINTER!
Byrd huot was the best left fielder.
Ever heard of Ted Williams?
Ted was the greater hitter, Carl was far better defensively in LF.
@@christophermullaley1597 The one Ted wasn't known for was his fielding. He was pure hitting.
The YAZ was My Man!
i remember being irritated because nesn in 1984 had 90 games and tv 38 only broadcasted away games.....the beginning of the end of free tv....
liverneck jones This was 1979. I saw that game on TV.
Absolutely correct,back in 1979 TV 38 would broadcast perhaps 80-100 games a year,mostly road games. Also Red Sox were contenders from 1975-1980,you'd figure the station would have more games,but Ch.38 would show old movies and less than average shows.
too big business now.....
I grew up a baseball fan in Boston, and YAZ, was a very good baseball player, although, he probably played a few more years than he should have.
He had some incredible years, and was a tremendous defensive left fielder, and then later, first baseman.
He wouldn’t crack the top 50 baseball players of all time, but certainly is worthy of the Hall, and New England owes him a debt of gratitude, for saving MLB in this region, with his INCREDIBLE 1967 season……so clutch.
What's up with the hiding of half the video? ? It's almost blocked, I have been wanting to see this video for a very long time.
I was I bed. Age 11. My friend Richie Drummond called me when Yaz hit it. I heard the call on the radio. Rico Petrocelli called it
I was at the game the night before, and Red Sox killer Joe Rudi, belts a grand slam in the first and the A’s got 6 runs. Yaz comes up in the bottom of the first and blasts one to right that goes just foul. Yaz was a fantastic player and got his 3000 hit later in the season. Screw Bowie Kuhn for costing the Red Sox Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers by voiding Charley Finlays sale of them to the Sox, and also Vida Blue to the Yankees!
Wish he could have gotten to win one world series on his resume. Came so close.
Triple Crown winner
My best memory of Yaz was him all pissed off and smoking in the dugout in a game against the Yankmes.
Right field fence 380
Taylor Swift should have included Yaz in her latest single, "Style" concerning his swing and his defensive positioning. It never goes out of style. Maybe a parody?
Ted Williams too.
Love the classic understatement of the affair. These days they'd immediately have some gaudy ceremony with video tribute with cheesy music playing.
I was in the bleachers for this game at age 15
1979
My first bat was his!!
65 more in the next 4 years.
Ned.
Back when radio was THE medium.
#HowFunWasThatToSimplyWatchHuh?
Yaz for mayor ....
All done without steroids!! Would have had 200 more if he had like most.
Yeah thanks for removing my comment mr big moderator. My comment stood by the community guideline. That was my father who ran out onto 3rd base to meet with Yaz. Very upsetting my comment was removed. I’ll bet you the choice you make on removing this comment will fulfill my answer that you made another mistake when I check back in a year. Go Sox!
What are you on about?
You can easily add 75-100 more Hrs if he played in a more lefty friendly home park. Ted Williams lost a lot to Fenway as well. Dead right field and right center are way out there. Pesky Pole, because it veers out so quickly, didn't help much.
That's when baseball was great and America's game. Now, woke politics and rule changes have diminished MLB.