Posted on 09/22/2015 11:29:17 PM PDT by musicman
Edited on 09/23/2015 2:25:58 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A loss that unquestionably transcends the game has sent all of baseball into deep mourning. Yogi Berra -- Hall of Famer, all-time Yankees legend, three-time Most Valuable Player, master of misstatement and beloved international icon, is gone. Berra died Tuesday night at age 90.
The announcement came early Wednesday morning and was announced via the Yogi Berra Museum's Twitter account.
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I met him years ago in FL as a little girl. RIP.
Yogism reply to questions about a less than stellar Yankee performance: “ I WISH I HAD AN ANSWER TO THAT, BECAUSE I’M TIRED OF ANSWERING THAT QUESTION.”
One morning when I was 10 or 11, I realized Yogi was sitting at the table adjacent to ours in a St. Louis restaurant. I was already a huge baseball fan, so I was thrilled. I whispered to my parents that he was there and my mother whispered back that I needed to wait until after he was done eating to say something to him. He ended up pulling his chair up to our table and talking to my family for a few minutes. He went above and beyond to be nice to a young baseball fan. I remember my mother thanking him for being “so sweet” to me.
R.I.P. Yogi! Thank you!
About Ruggeri’s Restaurant in St. Louis: “NOBODY GOES THERE ANYMORE. IT’S TOO CROWDED.”
Same sentiments. Yogi was a rock.
I am not a big baseball fan, but I loved that man.
RIP, Mr. Berra
RIP Yogi
The day my heart broke and I cried like a baby! Bill Mazeroski is still a swear work in my house. That said, later in my life, I was given a baseball by Don Larsen and it was signed by him and Yogi for the Perfect Game in the 1956 World Series. A cherished treasure.
R.I.P. Yogi!
Funny how so many of these posts are about his sayings instead of his absolutely INCREDIBLE career.
Listening to Tim Kurkjian on ESPN this morning:
Said he was the second greatest catcher in history behind Johnny Bench.
3 MVPs, at two positions
4 other Top 4 MVP finishes
TEN World Series rings as a player, the only player to do so!!
Seasons where he hit more homers than he had strikeouts. One year he had 28 homers and only struck out 12 times!!
The most amazing stat they discussed: caught both games of a doubleheader 118 times!!!
And only 5’7” and 185 lbs.
RIP Yogi
a true American icon
“If you see a duplicate Yogi thread, take it!”
“What a house. Nothing but rooms.”
Actually, those guys rubbed shoulders with him. With sluggers DiMaggio and Mantle as teammates, Berra led the team in RBIs. Over his almost 20 year career and averaged over a 162 game season, Berra averaged 32 strikeouts PER SEASON - incredible - Mantle had more than three times that, and Joltin’ Joe had 10 times as many. Mantle walked more, but Berra had a far better eye than DiMaggio. As a minor league player in a double header, Berra had 23 RBIs! Can you even imagine that - that’s more than most teams score in a week. There may be no greater player, before or since.
I’m sure learning a lot more about Yogi than I didn’t know before! First I learned that he was at the D-Day invasion of Normandy when I was five days old, and now you tell me that when you met him he was a little girl;>)
This is a medium volume ping list during the baseball season and a low volume ping list when all life stops in late October.
If you would like to be on the ping list please FReepmail me.
1. “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
2. “It’s deja vu all over again.”
3. “I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.”
4. “Never answer an anonymous letter.”
5. “We made too many wrong mistakes.”
6. “You can observe a lot by watching.”
7. “The future ain’t what it used to be.”
8. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
9. “It gets late early out here.”
10. “If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”
11. “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
12. “Pair up in threes.”
13. “Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.”
14. “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
15. “All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”
16. “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
17. “Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.”
18. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”
19. “I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
20. “I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.”
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Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra in 1955.
21. “I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.”
22. “I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.”
23. “I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
24. “In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”
25. “I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”
26. “I never said most of the things I said.”
27. “It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”
28. “I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”
29. “I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.”
30. “So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.”
31. “Take it with a grin of salt.”
32. (On the 1973 Mets) “We were overwhelming underdogs.”
33. “The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”
34. “You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
35. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
Hey, Yogi, what time is it?
ANSWER: You mean now?
Yogi Berra did not die...he just transitioned to another world, called the Lord’s Paradise!!! Yogi was one for the ages.....and never will be forgotten. He will forever live in the hearts New York Yankees, New York Mets and Major League Baseball fans all over the country and throughout the entire world!!! His was truly an American success story!!!
Yogi....the great America you came from is dying....but the candle of your forever burning flame of goodness, patriotism, loyalty, dedication, comedy and great baseball will serve to help renew our great nation from the hands of those that hate her and wish to be the despots and dictators of the future. I would gladly salute you, Yogi with a heartfelt RIP....but your unending march in love for baseball and America, your beloved country, will go on forever!!! Glad I am in the world when you were in this world. You were a giant for goodness, leadership and love!!! Bravo!!!
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