A baseball legend visits SF Giants in Boston and leaves Bob Melvin speechless

There are not many figures in baseball that take the breath away from Bob Melvin, a 40-year veteran of the game who has seen it all and can consider most anyone from the modern era a peer, having shared the field with them in some capacity, either as a player or a manager, on his side or against them. Then, a couple hours before the first pitch of their series finale against the Red Sox on Thursday, one of them walked into his office. It was Carl Yastrzemski, the first-ballot Hall of Famer, 3,000-hit club member, 18-time All-Star — and grandfather of the Giants' right fielder, Mike Yastrzemski. “I really didn't have much to say,” Melvin said from his perch in the third-base dugout a little while later, “because I was in awe.”