>Everyone remembers Carlton Fisk's HR. But they would not even have been still playing if not for a catch by Dwight Evans. He was a tremendous right fielder with a gun of an arm. They tested him the first couple of years. They didn't test him after that. He was a good enough hitter but that was not what he was known for. Wow, what an arm. Even if you hit it perfectly you were stupid to try making it to third. Bang, you're out.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DYR0sN0CnQThere is a great sports talk radio station in Boston, possibly the first of its kind. Carl Yastrzemski himself would sometimes call in. "This is Carl from Natick." What he did down the stretch in 1967, a year when nothing was expected from the Red Sox, was amazing. He had one game winning hit after another. It was a four team race and they just couldn't get him out. (Red Sox, Tigers, Twins, White Sox). He won the batting title the next year, too, the year of the pitchers, with what I believe is the lowest award winning batting average ever. After that season baseball lowered the pitcher's mound because fans like seeing runs.
