At Least Mrs. Yastrzemski Didn’t Use It: Sex Product Steals Nickname of Hall of Famer

Bah...I remember the uproar over the Johnny Kling-Tite brand.

Yaz is one of the great baseball nicknames of all-time. It’s both simple and elegant. It has the advantage of being necessary and somehow descriptive at the same time. Just typing the word Yaz, I automatically conjure up an image of the player with the dark hair and the big nose standing in the batter’s box with his bat held high in the air, which made him seem even wirier than his 5-foot-11, 182-pound frame.

So, imagine my surprise when I’m watching TV and a commercial comes on for a new birth control pill called Yaz!

Is nothing sacred? Did the people in charge of marketing for this product not understand that particular name was already taken?