Yogi Berra, a baseball legend who won 10 World Series championships as a player with the New York Yankees and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, died on Tuesday night at the age of 90. Yogi Berra, one of baseball?s greatest catchers and characters, who as a player was a mainstay of 10 Yankee championship teams and as a manager led both the Yankees and Mets to the World Series ? but who may be more widely known as an ungainly but lovable cultural figure, inspiring a cartoon character and issuing a seemingly limitless supply of unwittingly witty epigrams known as Yogi-isms ? died on Tuesday. He was 90. His death was reported by the Yankees and by the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Little Falls, N.J. Before moving to an assisted living facility in nearby West Caldwell, in 2012, Berra had lived for many years in neighboring Montclair. In 1949, early in Berra?s Yankee career, his manager assessed him this way in an interview in The Sporting News: ?Mr. Berra,? Casey Stengel said, ?is a very strange fellow of very remarkable abilities.? __________________________________________________ A great man. R.I.P. Yogi.
my Mom and Aunt, her twin sister, use to walk a mile each way to see Yogi, Joe D and Whitey Ford in the 40's at the old Yankee Stadium. He was one of a kind and a rare baseball gem of a man and player! He was what's best for baseball and not the game it is now! RIP Yogi! Have a round with Joe D, Mick, and Billy Martin for me...
Yogi 3-time MVP 10-WS 18-All Star Quite a resume but the best are his quotes! If you see a fork in the road, take it!.......The best way to end it is......If you don't go to your friends funeral, he won't come to yours!.....RIP Yogi......
in homage to yogi, i'd like to mention a geography fun fact. each time zone in this country is nominally an hour wide. so, in theory, no one should be more than 30 solar minutes from the center of their zone. of course, the zones are not uniform, so there are inevitable exceptions. iirc, detroit is 42 minutes west of the center line of the eastern time zone. so, unlike new york, it actually gets late late here
10 quotes from Yogi Berra ? Baseball is 90 per cent mental and the other half is physical ? It ain?t the heat, it?s the humility ? A nickel ain?t worth a dime any more ? It?s like d?j?-vu all over again ? He hits from both sides of the plate. He?s amphibious ? Even Napoleon had his Watergate ? We made too many wrong mistakes ? You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I?m not hungry enough to eat six ? You should always go to other people?s funerals, otherwise, they won?t come to yours ? I never said most of the things I said
