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

BOSTON — 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...