There's not much I want to say here except that I wish Yaz a speedy recovery after his heart bypass surgery today.Carl Yastrzemski is the first sports hero I can remember having as a child. By the time he came into my world he'd already been playing for fourteen or fifteen years and was past his prime. And it didn't matter one bit to me. Even at a young age it was clear to me that here was a man who never gave anything but his best and, while I don't mean to slight his physical abilities, a man who created a Hall of Fame career on the basis of sheer will.
To this day- some 30+ years later- any time I play an organized sport I want to be #8 and I don't expect that will ever change.
