As a child vacationing in FL, sat in his lap at a restaurant. Parents told me that Yogi Berra was ‘over there’.....so I wandered over thinking he was ‘Yogi Bear’. Ha! I still remember him and his great laugh.
Neat story.
I wonder of Hanna-Barbara picked their bear character’s name became of the popularity of the man. Hanna Barbara was kind of a cultural vampire company. Nothing was original with them.