Editing Carl Yastrzemski (section)

==Early life==
Yastrzemski was born in [[Southampton, New York]], to Karol Yastrzemski ([[Anglicisation|anglicized]] to Carl) and Hattie Skonieczny.<ref name="Carl Yastrzemski at Baseball Reference"/> Both his parents were of a Polish background, and young Carl was [[bilingual]] from an early age. Raised on his father's potato farm, Carl played on sandlot baseball teams with his father, who, he maintains, was a better athlete than he was. He graduated in 1957 from [[Bridgehampton Union Free School District|Bridgehampton School]]. Yastrzemski also played [[Little League Baseball]], and became the first Little League player to be inducted into the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.littleleague.org/worldseries/pdf/From_LL_to_Majors.pdf |title=From Little League to the Major Leagues |website=littleleague.org |access-date=August 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722025401/http://www.littleleague.org/worldseries/pdf/From_LL_to_Majors.pdf |archive-date=July 22, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19890605&id=ledLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DIwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4294,879697 |title=From humble beginnings |newspaper=The Free-Lance Star |location=Fredericksburg, Virginia |date=June 5, 1989 |page=10 |access-date=September 1, 2021 |via=Google News Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.littleleague.org/news/21-little-leaguers-baseball-hall-fame/ |title=21 Little Leaguers in the Baseball Hall of Fame |website=littleleague.org |date=January 6, 2016 |access-date=September 1, 2021 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028205845/https://www.littleleague.org/news/21-little-leaguers-baseball-hall-fame/ |archive-date=October 28, 2020 }}</ref> He attended [[University of Notre Dame|Notre Dame]] on a basketball scholarship (his career Long Island high school scoring mark at Bridgehampton broke one previously held by [[Jim Brown]]) briefly before embarking on his baseball career.

Yastrzemski signed with the Red Sox organization, which sent him to the [[Minor League Baseball|minor-league]] [[Raleigh Capitals]] in {{baseball year|1959}}, where he led the league with a .377 batting average.<ref name=yazbio>{{cite web|url=http://www.yaz8.com/bio.htm|title=Official Yastrzemski Web Bio|access-date=July 25, 2008|work=yaz8.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000621201849/http://www.yaz8.com/bio.htm|archive-date=June 21, 2000}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/leader.cgi?type=bat&id=10728|title=2017 Register Batting Leaders|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> The organization moved him to the [[Minneapolis Millers]] for that post-season and the {{baseball year|1960}} season.<ref name=millers>{{cite web |url=http://stewthornley.net/millers.html|title=Minneapolis Millers history|access-date=July 25, 2008 }}</ref> Yastrzemski, who had studied business at Notre Dame, fulfilled a promise to his parents by finishing his degree at [[Merrimack College]] in [[North Andover, Massachusetts]], in 1966.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Carter |first=Bob |title=Yaz won Triple Crown |url=https://www.espn.com/classic/s/add_Yastrzemski_Carl.html |access-date=July 25, 2008 |website=ESPN.com}}</ref>