# "Yogi" (Lawrence) Berra Rocks! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 16, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogi-lawrence-berra-rocks/514100 "2009-10-16T23:30:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogi-lawrence-berra-rocks/514100/1 "2009-10-16T23:30:13Z")
I _love_ his malapropisms, and I used to love him catching for those famous “Yankees” and being a teammate of Maris, Mantle and Ford. I was just so happy to have read a short interview with him in a sports magazine (sorry, don’t remember which one) and loved reading his comments about his former teammates! One “Yogi-Ism” I remember is: “This is the _earliest_ I’ve ever been _late_!” I looked for this one on google, but unless I missed it, it was not attributed to him? Anyone know? On another thread I wrote “Not Much On Baseball But…”, which may lead one to think, “WTF? How can he ask that if he says he doesn’t know the game!!!” “When in Rome…” 🙂 So… I paid attention to this game and learned to keep track of stats and trading cards. My personal favorites (in addition to **Yogi** ) were: Warren Spahn and Sandy Koufax. Hey! Don’t give me any shit, okay?🙂 The German Boy did the best he could to “fit in” in those days!😃 However… The “burning question” remains:" Who came _first_, **Bear** or **Berra**?" I _suspect_ I know the answer, but I just wanted y’all to know that in the last 49 years, I have done my _best_ to always wonder. Go ahead, “bust” my bubble, because everyone knows that… “If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.” - Yogi Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogi-lawrence-berra-rocks/514100/2 "2009-10-17T00:17:46Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > The “burning question” remains:" Who came _first_, **Bear** or **Berra**?" Berra. Yogi Bear didn’t appear until Berra was a long-well-established baseball star. Hanna-Barbera always denied the cartoon character was named after Berra, though obviously he was. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogi-lawrence-berra-rocks/514100/3 "2009-10-17T01:22:48Z")
The famous/_in_famous RickJay graces this thread!!!🙂 I am _honored_, Sir!🙂 I wonder, would you care to update us on your prog/regress regarding the question: Are/Am I (you still “farting holes in my (your) underwear?” Imagine if you will, opening up The Dope and seeing this thread “cold” as you’re trying to eat your dinner??? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65473](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65473) A literary masterpiece worthy of the adoration shown the Cystine Chapel, I tell you!:D:D:D **RickJay** , I just want you to know that your question has been the incentive for me to laugh when I really didn’t feel like it.☹ In church, for instance. Or, at the dinner table, when my (now deceased) Dad would let one rip. At _that_ time, it was _very_ important that my brother and I not make eye-contact, if you catch my drift. So to speak. **RickJay** , I may have forgotten your name, but I _never_ will forget all the laughs (in _my_ case, “belly-laughs”), when I would quote your question at the most non-appropriate times! I feel I owe you royalties, but if you will accept instead my undying (for now) admiration and the mention _here_ of your worthy name, I would be MOST grateful. In the name of all who spewed onto their “monitores” that fateful day, I remain your most fervent admirer, **QUASIMODEM** Shit! That took me just about an hour to write, so don’t come at me with no sin-tax or shpelling mistkays either, Y’all ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogi-lawrence-berra-rocks/514100/4 "2009-10-17T04:41:01Z")
I’d like to thank you, Quasimodem, for making this thread necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogi-lawrence-berra-rocks/514100/5 "2009-10-17T04:59:17Z")
Bitte Schön! 🙂 Paying tribute to two great men! And for thinking of **me** as neccesitating this thread? I don’t EVEN compare! Both have brought me happiness in their own way, as does everyone here. Thanks Quasimodem