Gearing up for interleague play

As interleague play gets set to kick off, here’s a good trivia question for you - which Red Sox hitter has the most career home runs at Shea Stadium, including the 1986 World Series? A clue is that this guy did not play in the ‘86 Series, just missing it by a couple of years. The answer? Carl Yastrzemski, who played until 1983, and hit three homers at Shea between 1974 and 1975, when the Yankees called Flushing home. Going a little further back in Red Sox history, here’s Ted Williams on “What’s My Line?” in 1954. In fact, given the game that Williams describes, it was May 23, 1954. At the time, the Red Sox were in the middle of a 15-game road trip that took them to Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, New York and Philadelphia - that’s every city in the American League at the time except for Washington. You don’t see that so much anymore. (link)