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"I remember the first time I saw Carl Yastrzemski, a youngster in the Red Sox batting cage a few years ago, and how much he reminded me of myself at that age, I mean he positively quivered waiting for the next pitch. And I have to think there was nobody who had any more opportunity than I did, along with the God-given physical attributes and the intense desire. Almost always the first at the ballpark, almost always the last to leave. I’m talking about from a kid on. I have to laugh now at my last five or six years in Boston, how I just wanted to get in and get out, to beat the crowds, to get it over with." Ted Williams "Carl Yastrzemski did it all the time. We'd be on the road and he'd call, 'C'mon, we're going to the ballpark.' I'd say, 'Christ, it's only one o'clock. The game's at seven'. Yaz lived, breathed, ate, and slept baseball. If he went 0-for-4, he couldn't live with it. He could live with himself if he went 1-for-3. He was happy if he went 2-for-4. That's the way the man suffered." Joe Lahoud "Ed Runge, you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first". Carl Yastrzemski