Yankee great Berra dies

Sure, Yogi was a amusing guy and maybe that’s why people forget that on the baseball field he was one of greatest catchers and clutch hitters in the history of the game. Perhaps above all, he kept a love for the game that made him famous and interjected fun in the process. His 56.1 wins above replacement are tied with Mike Piazza for fifth most by a catcher in major league history. “Yogi gave everything at least 140%”.

Yogi Berra, the Hall of Fame catcher renowned as much for his lovable, linguistically dizzying “Yogi-isms” as his unmatched 10 World Series championships with the New York Yankees, has died at 90.

In addition to Berra’s legacy in baseball, is his legacy in the English language. His wife, Carmen, died in 2014.

“My first two years, I was very bad”.

“This is really a great American success story in the sense that he was the son of immigrants”, Kaplan told me.

He said his fingers were so short that they had to be painted just to be more visible to pitchers. Ventura also played for the Yanks, during the 2002 and ’03 seasons, and he stated that while Berra’s passing was sad, as soon as you started thinking about Berra, “you smile”. Yogi yelled back. “I don’t have a donation for those fellas!”

A storyboard sits in front of his plaque, highlighting his career that spanned decades, to both allow fans to mourn and reflect.

Yogi, you came to a fork in the road, and took it.

“I do remember, prior to 2009, he said, ‘I have a good feeling about this year, kid, ‘” Rodriguez said. “It just comes out”. “It ain’t over ’til it’s over” was one of his “Yogi-isms“, which has become a part of the American idiom.

Baseball Hall of Famer Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra, who passed away September 22 at age 90 in West Caldwell, N.J., had one of the most fantastic careers anybody could imagine.

“And, look, with me, with all the craziness here with me in New York, every spring it was a different story about me”, Rodriguez said.

He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame also in 1972.