NEW TRIVIA CONTEST: You will still be required to enter the drawing as usual. However, through the end of 2024 you will get points depending on the complexity of the questions. Enter each week and correct answers will get those points-one guess per person per week. The reader with the most points after the years final column will get a $50 Starbucks Gift Card. Ties will be placed into a drawing. Questions will be worth anywhere from 10-25 points depending on degree of difficulty. Questions will be more difficult as the year goes on, so you are never really out of the mix. Tell your friends and sports fans who like trivia. We will keep track of your points. - YOU MUST ENTER VIA THE EMAIL AT THE END OF THIS COLUMN.
NEW TRIVIA QUESTION: In a career which spanned 14 seasons he was a stalwart starter but also relieved. His lifetime WHIP was an amazing 1.17, but in one season as a reliever with over 100 innings pitched, his WHIP was under 1.00. Who was he? TOTAL 100 POINTS.
It had been a long time since the Boston Red Sox had a batting champion. How about a player to lead the American League in RBI? Home Runs? Well, there was Dick Stuart, almost. But for someone to lead the AL in all three categories - the Triple Crown? You only had to look as far as Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. What a season Yaz had in leading the Red Sox to the pennant & MVP.
The proof of one really great season came on the last day of the regular 1967 season. The Red Sox needed to beat the Twins whom they were battling for the pennant. In a great match-up between two solid pitchers ((Jim Kaat vs. Jose Santiago), the Sox won it 6-4 with Yaz going 3-for-4 at the plate and hitting a 3 run homer in the 7th to basically clinch it. Yaz had a new name; Clutch.
It should be noted Harmon Killebrew also smacked homer no. 44 in that game giving him a share of the home run record. While losing the World Series to the Cardinals, Yaz hit .400. It was a year Yaz would really "paak the caar."
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