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BoSoxNation · 03-29-2007, 12:02 PM

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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Baseball is a game of rituals, routines, secrets, and superstitions. A timeless game played by grown men who get paid to be boys. Superstitious boys. Carl Yastrzemski is sitting in a golf cart at the Red Sox minor league complex, avoiding the crowds and raving about a 19-year-old prospect named Lars Anderson, from Jesuit High School in Carmichael, Calif. Forty years since the 1967 Impossible Dream season elevated baseball to sacred cow status in Boston, the 67-year-old Yaz is asked about superstitions. Instead, the last man to win the coveted Triple Crown chats about the weather, fishing, injuries, and aging.

Boston Red Sox - Quirk of fortune: Superstitions are the norm - The Boston Globe