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For anyone who hasn't read them I highly recommend Yogi's books. Not only are they entertaining, they offer some good advice about life and living it well.
Another one: "Baseball is a Funny Game" by Joe Garagiola. Joe and Yogi grew up together and there are a lot of great stories about Yogi as a kid.
I'll always remember the phrase, "It ain't over 'til it's over". And now, sadly, it is over.
He come to that fork in the road,.................and he took it.
What a great life he had. A great baseball life, and a man with the notable quotables. He was famous with the Yankees, of course, but he did get to spend some time with my Astros serving on that coaching staff for a while.
Yogi, we remember, and baseball remembers. Thanks for giving the way you did.
Yogi and Phil were teammates for 11 seasons and developed quite a friendship. Here's a story about them that shows the kind of guy Yogi was.
From Yahoo baseball: "When Phil Rizzuto became ill toward the end of his life, he was put in an assisted living facility, which was about 30 minutes away from where Yogi lived. And every single day, because teammates were important to him, he would drive there, and he would play cards with Phil. And then when Phil would start to fall asleep, Yogi would hold his hand and when Phil would finally go to sleep, that’s when Yogi would leave. Every day. That’s what teammates meant to him."
Here's a couple more gems from around the interwebs.
- Yogi's advice to Derek Jeter. He told him that he swung at too many bad pitches. Jeter responded: you did too. Yogi: yes but I managed to hit them.
- When Catholic Dublin elected a Jewish mayor, Yogi was heard to say “Only in America.”
- Excerpt from the WaPo, written by baseball fan George Will, about Yogi in WW-II: "The 18-year-old U.S. Navy enlistee, thinking it sounded less boring than the dull training he was doing in 1944, volunteered for service on what he thought an officer had called “rocket ships.” Actually, they were small, slow, vulnerable boats used as launching pads for rockets to give close-in support for troops assaulting beaches. The service on those boats certainly was not boring. At dawn on June 6, 1944, that sailor was a few hundred yards off Omaha Beach. Lawrence Peter Berra, who died Tuesday at 90, had a knack for being where the action was."
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Last edited by Mike from back east; 09-23-2015 at 08:58 PM..
The first baseball season I followed was 1960 and I was rewarded with what is always in the argument when talking about the greatest WS Game Seven ever. This was the Pirates 10-9 win over the Yankees, most famously remembered for Maz's walk off home run. The entire game had been great before that, the Pirates had jumped off to a 4-0 lead, the Yankees scored four in the 6th inning to go ahead 5-4. And the primary damage was a three run homer by....Yogi.
Had the score held, Yogi would have been the hero of the game, but that mantle shifted to the Pirates catcher Hal Smith when he retook the lead for Pittsburgh in the 8th with a three run bomb.
And that didn't hold up because NY tied it at 9 in the top of the 9th on a RBI groundball by ...Yogi.
And then came Maz...
You could use it as a trivia question...Who had the most RBI in the Mazeroski walk off World Series game? Yogi Berra...4
Charlie Slowes (Nats radio announcer) was telling this story about Yogi tonight:
6 or 7 years ago, he was attending a Yankees Spring Training game in Tampa. After the game he's on the elevator with YES play-by-play man Michael Kay who he went to school with at Fordham. Their elevator stops at the next floor and Yogi gets on. After Kay introduces Yogi to Charlie, Charlie asks Yogi, "So Yogi, are you here the whole month?" Yogi responds in the way he only could "not for the whole month, but until Spring Training ends."
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Yogi Berra and Phil Rizzuto
