Encyclopedia > Yogiisms

  Article Content

Yogi Berra

Redirected from Yogiisms

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925) is a retired baseball player and, later, team manager. Born in St. Louis, he picked up his nickname from a friend who said he resembled a Hindu holy man, and began playing baseball in local American Legion leagues, where he learnt the basics of play as a catcher. After rejecting an offer from the St. Louis Cardinals he signed with the New York Yankees in 1942.

Playing Career

Following a spell in the US Navy during World War II he played minor league baseball with the Newark Bears before being called up for 7 games in the major leagues in 1946. The following season he played 86 games for the Yankees, and he would play 100+ for each of the following 14 years. During his 19-year career as a Yankee the Bronx Bombers dominated baseball, appearing in 14 World Series and winning ten championships. Yogi himself was a 15-time All-Star, and won the league MVP award three times (in 1951, 1954 and 1955) and caught Don Larsen[?]'s perfect game in the 1956 Series.

In 1972[?] he was elected to the United States Baseball Hall of Fame.

Managing Career

Yankees - Mets - Yankees - Fired by Steinbrenner - Astros,

Career Statistics

GABH2B3BHRRRBIBBIBBSOSHSFHBPAVGOBPSLG
2,1207,5552,150321493581,1751,4307044941494452.285.348.482

Berra was also famous for fracturing the English language in provocative, interesting ways. See also: Colemanballs, Damaging quotation

Books

Three books by Yogi Berra (with co-authors):

  • ISBN 0761110909; (April 1998) The Yogi Book: 'I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said'
  • ISBN 0786867752; (May 2001) When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
  • ISBN 0743237684; (October 1, 2002) What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

External links



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
North Haven, New York

... 100 females there are 86.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 82.7 males. The median income for a household in the village is $74,583, and the median ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 34.5 ms