Died yesterday at 90. I’m not a big sports fan, but I know poetry when I hear it. Even when he made no sense, you knew exactly what he meant.
The Hall of Fame baseball player and coiner of Yogi-isms and one-time Yoo Hoo huckster has died.
I swear, though, when my wife told me about it this morning, I thought she said that Yogi Bear had died.
I’m not at all a baseball (or even sports) person, but I wouldn’t have guessed he was still alive.
Apparently there was an AP bulletin that Yogi Bear had died. Fark has the link to the Las Vegas Sun-News. I think that somehow that screwup is the perfect tribute to Yogi Berra.
It ain’t over 'til it’s over.
One of the finest men of his time, and an icon of the game.
One of my favorite baseball players, managers and sports figures in general; a truly great man. RIP Mr. Berra; you were awesome.
It’s over.
People forget, or maybe don’t realize, how good of a player he actually was. 3 time AL MVP on a Yankees team that was loaded. RIP Yogi.
I guess he came to the fork in the road and took it.
St. Peter: “Welcome to Heaven, Yogi.”
Yogi: “Nah, nobody goes to Heaven. It’s too crowded.”
How very Yogi.
One hopes that whoever is chosen to give his eulogy rises to the occasion.
Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
-Lawrence Peter Berra
I think a lot of people will be at Yogi’s funeral, even those whose funerals he didn’t go to.
I rarely use my signature, but I’ll take the opportunity to do it here.
Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
-Lawrence Peter Berra
I think a lot of people will be at Yogi’s funeral, even if he didn’t go to theirs.
I rarely use my signature, but I’ll take the opportunity to do it here.
Remember to attend his funeral.
There will be a lot of obituaries in the news over the next couple of days, and most of them will mention his malapropisms. I hope they focus on a couple of other things: that he was a truly great ballplayer, and that he was loved by almost everyone.
The AP obituary says that Berra was slow. He played 260 games in the outfield, including 149 games in left. How slow could he have been?
In the 2001 edition of his Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James ranked Yogi Berra as the greatest catcher of all time. He was Casey Stengel’s favorite player. He was the best bad-pitch hitter of his generation.
There was a great story in Peter Golenbock’s book Dynasty. Each Spring, Yankee veterans in the Fifties would bet a speedy rookie that he couldn’t even beat Yogi in a sprint. The rookie would even be convinced to give the “slow” Yogi a head start. And the rookie would always lose, because Yogi was MUCH faster than he looked.
Interestingly, the FASTEST guy on the Yankee roster was Don Larsen.