The great Carl Yastrzemski actually made his debut in 1961. And he most definitely wasn’t a second-baseman.

All he had to do was try to fill the shoes of the retiring Ted Williams. Pressure? What pressure?

Yaz went on to make himself a legend in his own right. He had 3,419 career hits and 452 homers. And his 1967 Triple Crown season, leading the Red Sox to the AL pennant, might have been the greatest one-man show in the history of the game.

Here is a link to his stats.