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Yogi Berra, Master Catcher With a Goofy Wit, Dies at 90
NY Times ^ | 09-23-2015 | BRUCE WEBER

Posted on 09/23/2015 12:54:10 AM PDT by NRx

Yogi Berra, one of baseball’s greatest catchers and characters, who as a player was a mainstay of 10 Yankee championship teams and as a manager led both the Yankees and Mets to the World Series — but who may be more widely known as an ungainly but lovable cultural figure, inspiring a cartoon character and issuing a seemingly limitless supply of unwittingly witty epigrams known as Yogi-isms — died Tuesday. He was 90.

His death was reported by the Yankees and by the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center Museum in Little Falls, N.J. Before moving to an assisted living facility in nearby West Caldwell, in 2012, Berra had lived for many years in neighboring Montclair.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: baseball; berra; yogiberra
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Incredibly sad news.

"It aint over til it's over." -Yogi Berra

May his memory be eternal.

1 posted on 09/23/2015 12:54:10 AM PDT by NRx
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To: NRx

RIP Yogi. A true American original.

2 posted on 09/23/2015 12:57:04 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: NRx

R.I.P> Yogi.


3 posted on 09/23/2015 1:03:40 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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... the team held a Yogi Berra Day on July 18, 1999. Also invited was Don Larsen, who threw out the ceremonial first pitch, which Berra caught.

Incredibly, in the game that day, David Cone of the Yankees pitched a perfect game.

It was, as Berra may or may not have said in another context, “déjà vu all over again,” a fittingly climactic episode for a wondrous baseball life.

4 posted on 09/23/2015 1:13:53 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: NRx
It's over. 😭
5 posted on 09/23/2015 1:18:14 AM PDT by 22202NOVA (No more pencils! No more books! No more teacher's dirty looks!)
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To: NRx

His wife once asked him where he wanted to be buried, in St. Louis, New York or Montclair.

“I don’t know,” he said. “Why don’t you surprise me?”


6 posted on 09/23/2015 1:34:46 AM PDT by The Raven
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To: NRx

RIP Yogi.


7 posted on 09/23/2015 1:36:34 AM PDT by Gator113 (~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz REMAINS the only true Conservative in this race. ~~ just livin' life~~)
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Some of his best quotes (and a few quotes about him): http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoberra.shtml Rest in peace, Yogi. 😣
8 posted on 09/23/2015 1:38:51 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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RIP, Yogi.

Not only could you spin a great one-liner, you were also one of the best ever behind home plate.

Godspeed.


9 posted on 09/23/2015 1:40:23 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged, you're part of the problem.)
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Some of his best quotes (and a few quotes about him):
10 posted on 09/23/2015 2:03:07 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: NRx

Always go to other people’s funerals, or they won’t go to yours.

Thus saith Yogi.


11 posted on 09/23/2015 2:34:35 AM PDT by sushiman
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Knew it was coming, but still..... What a wonderful man.

Rest in peace Yogi.


12 posted on 09/23/2015 2:35:18 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: NRx

Hey he lived a good long life, now he’s with his buddies, Billy, Phil, Mickey.....etc.


13 posted on 09/23/2015 2:39:30 AM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: NRx
My favorite Yogi-ism:
(About a popular restaurant) "Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded."
14 posted on 09/23/2015 2:59:43 AM PDT by Company Man (Keep on Trumpin')
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To: knarf

Thanks knarf.


15 posted on 09/23/2015 3:16:37 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: NRx

RIP, Yogi.

What an honor to have watched a true great player of the game.

Sad to see you go from us.


16 posted on 09/23/2015 3:21:53 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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So who gets Yankee Stadium??

Tell the Pope to go elsewhere. The stadium belongs to Yogi!!

It ain't over!!

17 posted on 09/23/2015 3:22:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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R.I.P. Yogi..........A true legend.


18 posted on 09/23/2015 3:23:44 AM PDT by DaveA37
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Mickey Mantle said that someone once asked Yogi, “What time is it?

Yogi: “You mean right now?”


19 posted on 09/23/2015 3:45:41 AM PDT by odawg
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To: NRx

Bummer. One of my favorite Yankees.

RIP


20 posted on 09/23/2015 3:47:50 AM PDT by Paisan
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