There’s a Shrine to Yogi Berra at City Hall

We all – whatever our favorite team was – hated our opponents, but we all liked Yogi Berra (and respected Jackie Robinson.) Yogi was a great athlete and a great character whose twisted epigrams and malaprops [(“Even Napoleon had his Watergate”), were, and remain, charmingly amusing and very quotable.

The country said goodbye to baseball legend Yogi Berra yesterday after the man know for his Yogi-isms like “When you come to a fork in the road, take it”, died at the age of 90.

Two years later, Berra had one of his better seasons at Griffith Stadium. “Ninety-nine percent of other managers and coaches, when they’re fired from their job, they separate themselves”, Dale said.

While his playing career alone justifies the Yankees decision to wear No. 8, Berra’s personality solidified his status as an icon around the game. Ballparks throughout the league honored Berra on Wednesday night.

On Thursday, the baseball star’s sons held a press conference at the Yogi Berra Museum in New Jersey. “When I walked out of the room I had the feeling it was the last time I was ever going to see him”, Salzberg said. After pausing a while, he said, “That’s really hard”.

“If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer”. “I wanted to be like him, a sensitive guy with an air of confidence and friendliness”.

“I don’t think them up”, he once told the Rochester Business Journal. He was a buddy of mine. Yogi Berra’s wife died a year ago after a stroke.

“Grandpa wanted to spend her birthday with her”, Lindsay Berra said. At the time, Yogi was simply known as Seaman 1st class Berra. Whatever else he meant by it, Mr. Berra’s magical construction reminds us to shut up a minute and look passively at the world, without the noise of prejudice and fear. As nice as it would be to get it, it’s a little bittersweet now…. It is unclear why he has not made it in yet, but not being a first ballot Hall of Famer takes him out of contention as the greatest catcher ever.

Funeral arrangements for Berra are private. This is a wonderful article about how, while Yogi Berra might be remembered for his sayings and his rings, there is so much more to the man that should be celebrated. Did his talking on the baseball field, and that was the key.

At the end of the day, it does not really matter if Yogi Berra was the best as the New York Times notes.