Carl Yastrzemski was a very dapper college student while playing for the Red Sox

If you're in school and reading this post, there's a good chance you should be doing homework. If you're Carl Yastrzemski in the early 1960s reading this post through some sort of magic time traveling internet, you should also be doing homework. Because even though Yaz debuted with the Red Sox in '61, he went back to college during his first few MLB seasons -- keeping a promise he made to his parents.

That's how we got the spectacular photo above -- we'd call it an awkward school photo, but it can't be all that awkward if you led the American League in batting average and doubles in the same year.

And, just as Marcus Stroman did this season, Yastrzemski finished his degree (a B.S. in Business Administration from Merrimack College) in 1966. In 1967, he slugged 44 homers and won AL MVP. Coincidence?