As a nine year old growing up in New Jersey, seems everyone was a yankee fan in 1968. I remember opening my first pack of baseball cards and getting two Yastrzemski cards in the same pack. Yaz had won the triple crown in 67 so he was first on all 3 league leader cards. What's better than that? Along with his regular issue card he appeared on a world series subset card.
If you turned over all the All star cards and put the puzzle together, it showed a great picture of Yaz. I became a redsox fan for life and Yastrzemski was my favorite player from that moment on.
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