622. * Tied in home runs, 44. No wonder, a man in defeat, Mgr. Carl Ermer of Minnesota, took time to praise his enemy. Ermer said, “I’d have to say Yastrzemski is the most valuable player ...

Sox great Carl Yastrzemski won the 1967 Triple Crown. Williams didn't ask Yaz to put the team on his shoulders, but for periods in 1967 he did just that. He became a pull hitter with home-run ...

Yastrzemski went 2-for-2 with a home run Thursday for his second homer of the spring. He's likely to platoon with Luis Matos in right field, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.