As a kid, in 1980 or 1981, I remember waiting outside the chain link fence of the player’s parking lot (a ludicrously small lot where they player’s cars were all blocked in, waiting for Yaz to emerge. He was the elder statesman in Boston, and having just become the first AL player to reach 3,000 hits and 400 homers (Al Kaline had 399), which for some reason was a huge deal at the time.
Anyway, Yaz was godlike, and after waiting seemingly forever, Yaz came out… with an untucked golf shirt, holding a six pack with one beer missing and one in his hand and with a cigarette in his mouth. It was shocking. He didn’t seem like a god at all. I liked the baseball cards better.

Janowicz played for the Redskins in 1954 and 1955 and must have had common teammates with Blanda within one or two degrees.

Early Wynn – Luis Aparicio ’58 White Sox
Luis Aparicio – Carlton Fisk, ’73 Red Sox
Carlton Fisk – Bo Jackson, ’91 White Sox
Bo Jackson – Howie Long, ’90 Raiders
Howie Long – Art Shell, ’81 Raiders
Art Shell – George Blanda, ’75 Raiders

But that’s more than four degrees.

Personally, I have a two-degree separation from Deion Sanders, who links me into the NFL, MLB and IMDB. I was once a co-worker of Doug Brien, who was a teammate of Sanders on the ’94 49ers.

Perhaps Zerbe could reprise his role in “The Life and Times of COLTER Bean”.

AND “Omega Man” is based on the same book — “I am Legend” — as Will Smith’s new movie by the same name. And this is the same movie they were trumpeting during the World Series this year.

Roddy McDowall was in That Darn Cat! (1965) with Grayson Hall
Grayson Hall was in Pick-up (1975) with Jim Bouton