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What a player!

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!

1 posted on 07/11/2021 8:47:53 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Nobody goes to the PO anymore, it’s too crowded.


2 posted on 07/11/2021 8:56:23 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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Nobody goes to the post office any more, it’s too crowded.


3 posted on 07/11/2021 8:58:01 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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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.


8 posted on 07/11/2021 9:32:02 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: PROCON

When you get a stamp named after you, you’re licked.


9 posted on 07/11/2021 9:55:10 PM PDT by bigbob
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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.”


10 posted on 07/11/2021 10:01:31 PM PDT by crz
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To: PROCON
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.

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

13 posted on 07/11/2021 11:20:23 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Will Boo-boo get one too?

Actually, Berra is an American Icon!

15 posted on 07/12/2021 2:46:43 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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And D-Day vet!!!


16 posted on 07/12/2021 3:13:52 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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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


18 posted on 07/12/2021 4:36:37 AM PDT by DFG
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We picked some of these up the other day.

L


19 posted on 07/12/2021 4:40:18 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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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?


20 posted on 07/12/2021 6:26:48 AM PDT by Bernard (“When once the guardian angel has taken flight, everything is lost”. – William H. Seward, 1/12/1861)
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The AZQuotes site has NINE PAGES of priceless Yogi Berra sayings!

https://www.azquotes.com/author/1321-Yogi_Berra


21 posted on 07/12/2021 7:09:37 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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