RIP Yogi. A true American original.
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.
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"It aint over til it's over." -Yogi Berra
May his memory be eternal.
RIP Yogi. A true American original.
R.I.P> Yogi.
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.
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?”
RIP Yogi.
RIP, Yogi.
Not only could you spin a great one-liner, you were also one of the best ever behind home plate.
Godspeed.
Always go to other people’s funerals, or they won’t go to yours.
Thus saith Yogi.
Knew it was coming, but still..... What a wonderful man.
Rest in peace Yogi.
Hey he lived a good long life, now he’s with his buddies, Billy, Phil, Mickey.....etc.
Thanks knarf.
RIP, Yogi.
What an honor to have watched a true great player of the game.
Sad to see you go from us.
Tell the Pope to go elsewhere. The stadium belongs to Yogi!!
It ain't over!!
R.I.P. Yogi..........A true legend.
Mickey Mantle said that someone once asked Yogi, “What time is it?
Yogi: “You mean right now?”
Bummer. One of my favorite Yankees.
RIP
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