As he goes back in time 41 years,Tony Massarotti of the Boston Herald takes a look at the year that many have said was the beginning of what we now have come to know as Red Sox Nation.
Forty-one years ago last night, on Aug. 19, 1967, he went 4-for-5 with four runs scored, two RBI, a double and a homer. The very next day, he hit a three-run homer in both ends of a doubleheader sweep over the then-California Angels to continue a historic one-man assault on the American League.
Back then, especially, Carl Yastrzemski seemed immortal.
What we know now, of course, is that Yaz is a 68-year-old man who needed triple bypass heart surgery last night at Massachusetts General Hospital, all while the redefined Red Sox [team stats] of this era were continuing a late-season run toward the playoffs against the Baltimore Orioles.
Camden Yards once again was overrun with Red Sox fans, and you could not help but remember that Yastrzemski and that cataclysmic summer of 1967 was most responsible for starting all of this.
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