Posted on 07/11/2021 8:47:53 PM PDT by PROCON
LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (AP) — Yogi Berra once said, "A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
Well, neither are postage stamps. They cost 55 cents for a forever stamp, and that's the price for the Yogi Berra stamp issued Thursday by the U.S. Postal Service.
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Berra won three American League MVP awards, was an 18-time MLB All-Star and played in the World Series in 14 of his 18 seasons in Yankees pinstripes.
Pretty damn good coach too!
Nobody goes to the PO anymore, it’s too crowded.
Nobody goes to the post office any more, it’s too crowded.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
• Played on 10 world championship teams and 14 pennant winners in 17 full seasons; played in 75 World Series games
• Three-time American League Most Valuable Player (1951, 1954, 1955); never finished lower than fourth in MVP voting from 1950-57
• Led American League catchers in home runs and RBI in each of nine straight seasons (1949-1957)
• Selected to play in 15 successive All-Star Games, 18x All-Star overall
• Played outfield early and late in his career, a total of 260 games
• Hit the first pinch hit home run in World Series history (1947)
• Caught at least 100 games in 10 seasons, and caught both games of 117 doubleheaders
• Became one of only four catchers to have a 1.000 fielding percentage for the season (1958)
• Caught the only Perfect Game in World Series history (1956)
• Selected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team • No. 8 retired by the New York Yankees
No one claims he wasn’t one of the Best when Baseball was GREAT.
They will and are paying the price, 'ef 'em!
Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola both grew up in The Hill neighborhood in St. Louis. It is still there, there is still good Italian food to be had there. Neat little small homes in a dying city.
When you get a stamp named after you, you’re licked.
One time he caught in a game where the pitcher threw four pitches and the result was four runs.
When the manager went out to the pitcher and while there the manager asked Yogi how his stuff was Yogi said “How the hell do I know, I havent caught a pitch yet.”
Re “When you get a stamp named after you, you’re licked”.
True, but you are also several other things, dead for one.
You are also a national “mail figure” for all of America.
You are leaving your “stamp” on philatelic history as well
as on America.
You will be, thanks to conservative television in the main, known as a great American patriot, a combat veteran of WW2, D-Day landing participant on a rocket-launcher transport ship as a machine-gunner combatant.
What a guy. He was the original Rodney Dangerfield of his day and forever.
Now he’s playing in that Great Baseball Game of All-Stars in heaven, and keeping God laughing too.
two lefts don’t make a right
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
“The Hill neighborhood in St. Louis”
Reminds me of the Fordham section in the Bronx NY especially the Arthur Ave markets.
Actually, Berra is an American Icon!
Old Harbor Rd, Westport, MA
A large, literal dinner fork sculpture taunts undecided travelers where this road splits. Built in 2010 by neighbor Tom Schmitt. He augments it with a heart on Valentines Day, a Santa hat on Christmas, and a hot dog on July 4.
Yogi Berra was also in the Navy in WW2.
“Unlike some of the MLB stars of the day, who mostly played baseball for the military during the war, Berra actually served and fought, putting his life on the line.
Seaman Second Class Berra served on a small landing craft support missile boat, which attacked the coast of Normandy during the massive D-Day invasion of 1944.
“When the battle commenced at 6:30 a.m., the LCS [landing craft support boat] sprayed bullets and rockets across the heavily fortified beach fronts before the troops landed,” Tom Verducci recalled on Wednesday for Sports Illustrated.
“Berra, then 19, manned a machine gun mounted on a ball turret in his LCS and stood tall with a boy’s wonder — too busy marveling at the tremendous explosions of lights and sound to consider the danger that would end the lives of 2,500 of his fellow Americans. In an LCS, only the steel walls of the boat and the grace of God stood between a sailor and death.””
https://www.mlb.com/news/yogi-berra-had-decorated-military-career-too/c-151195348
We picked some of these up the other day.
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So why did it take so long to issue a Yogi Berra stamp? He died in 2015, so does the USPS wait 5 years after a person passes before they put him on a stamp?
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