An emptiness always comes with the knowledge that a beloved personage no longer lives among us. We can feel this in Yogi Berra’s recent death at age 90. This is not only because of Berra’s extraordinary baseball record and the amazing American generation he represented, all of which Dan McLaughlin and Kevin Keating so expertly recounted here at The Federalist. It’s also because everybody knows that Berra’s great legacy is not entirely about baseball. His personality radiated way out of that ballpark. His manager, Casey Stengel, described him in 1949 as “a very strange fellow of very remarkable abilities.”...