Editing Carl Yastrzemski (section)

===1967===
Yastrzemski enjoyed his best season in {{mlby|1967}}, when he won the [[American League]] [[Major League Baseball Triple Crown|Triple Crown]] with a .326 [[batting average (baseball)|batting average]], 44 [[home run]]s (tied with [[Harmon Killebrew]]), and 121 [[Run batted in|RBIs]].<ref name="1967 American League Batting Leaders at Baseball Reference" /> Yastrzemski's Triple Crown win in 1967 was the last time a major league hitter won the Batting Triple Crown until [[Miguel Cabrera]] in the 2012 season (conversely, six different pitchers have since won the pitchers' version). He was voted [[Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award|Most Valuable Player]] almost unanimously (one voter chose [[César Tovar]] of the [[Minnesota Twins|Twins]]).<ref name="1967 American League Most Valuable Player Award voting resultsa at Baseball Reference" /> His 12.4 [[wins above replacement|WAR]] was the highest since Babe Ruth's 1927 season.<ref>{{cite web|title=baseball-reference|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/WAR_season.shtml|website=baseballreference.com}}</ref>

1967 was the season of the "[[1967 Boston Red Sox season|Impossible Dream]]" for the Red Sox (referring to the hit song from the musical ''[[Man of La Mancha]]''), who rebounded from a ninth-place finish a year before to win the American League pennant (their first since {{baseball year|1946}}) on the last day of the season.<ref name="1967 American League Team Statistics and Standings at Baseball Reference">{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1967.shtml|title=1967 American League Season Summary – Baseball-Reference.com|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> With the Red Sox battling as part of a four-team pennant race, Yastrzemski hit .513 (23 hits in 44 at-bats) with five home runs and 16 runs batted in over the last two weeks of the season, and finished a mere one game ahead of the [[Detroit Tigers]] and [[Minnesota Twins]].<ref name="1967 American League Team Statistics and Standings at Baseball Reference" /><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TCsDAAAAMBAJ&q=yastrzemski+baseball+digest&pg=PA66|title=Triple Crown Season in '67 Marked High Point for Yaz |author=Dan Shaughnessy |magazine=Baseball Digest |date=August 1992 |volume=51 |issue=8 |issn=0005-609X}}</ref> The Red Sox went into the final two games of the season trailing the Twins by one game and leading the Tigers by one-half game. Their final two games were against Minnesota with the pennant and home run title (hence, the triple crown) on the line. In the Saturday game, Yastrzemski went 3 for 4 with a home run and 4 RBI. Killebrew also homered, but the Red Sox won, 6–4. Thus the teams went into the final game tied for first place, and Yastrzemski and Killebrew were tied with 44 home runs apiece. In the final game, neither player homered, but Yastrzemski went 4 for 4 with 2 RBI in a 5-3 Red Sox win. In the two games with the pennant on the line, Yastrzemski was 7 for 8 with six RBIs.

The Red Sox lost the [[1967 World Series|World Series]] four games to three to the [[St. Louis Cardinals]], losing three times to [[Bob Gibson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1967_WS.shtml|title=1967 World Series – St. Louis Cardinals over Boston Red Sox (4-3) – Baseball-Reference.com|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> Yastrzemski batted .400 with 3 home runs and 5 RBI in the series. After the season, he fell one vote shy of a unanimous MVP award. He also won the [[Hickok Belt]] as top professional athlete of the year and ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' magazine's "[[Sportsman of the Year]]" Award.

In an article he co-wrote for the November 1967 issue of ''SPORT'' magazine, Yastrzemski credited Boston's remarkable season to manager [[Dick Williams]] and an infusion of youth, including [[Rico Petrocelli]] and [[Tony Conigliaro]]. Of Williams, Yastrzemski wrote: "He got rid of all the individuality, made us into a team, gave us an incentive, and made us want to win."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesportgallery.com/sport-stories/1967nov-redsox.html|title=Carl Yastrzemski – Behind the Red Sox Turnaround – SPORT magazine|access-date=July 25, 2008|work=thesportgallery.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704165138/http://www.thesportgallery.com/sport-stories/1967nov-redsox.html|archive-date=July 4, 2008}}</ref>