Berra became equally known for his adages
By Mark
Schadenberg
If you don't have some
humour to insert into a serious moment, you simply have a personality
which is too serious.
Baseball great Yogi
Berra died yesterday at the age of 90. When you heard the name Yogi
Berra you realized your thoughts drifted away from him being a
baseball great – a wonderful catcher, before my time with the New
York Yankees. Just like monikers such as hockey's Tim Horton or
baseball's Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle or Babe Ruth, you almost forget
they were a real person.
In his early times with
the Yankees he went by the name Larry. As for Lawrence Berra, his
Yogi-isms have become as famous as he was.
Perfect for baseball,
was the adage: “It
ain’t over ’til it’s over.”
Has a more true
statement ever been made about baseball, and of course many other
sports as we have all witnessed a triple bogey on the 18th hole, a fumble returned for a touchdown, or a speedster running out
of gas on the turn for a home.
Below are three
stories, which both honour Berra's lifetime in baseball, including 10
World Series rings as a player and three more as a coach, and also
recall that he was a Second World War veteran (Serving on D-Day with
the U.S. Navy at Normandy France) as well.
Dan Lamothe of the Washington Post included this passage in his published obit:
Dan Lamothe of the Washington Post included this passage in his published obit:
Berra put his baseball career on hold and enlisted in the Navy,
becoming a gunner’s mate.
He “got tired of sitting around” and volunteered to serve on amphibious ships, not entirely clear what they were, he recalled in an interview with the nonprofit Academy of Achievement in Washington.
He was assigned to a 36-foot “rocket boat” and told to prepare for what would become the largest amphibious invasion in history: “D-Day,” the June 6, 1944, assault on the beaches of Normandy.
The Yankees catcher won
three MVP awards, and still holds the record for most World Series
games played. With 358 career home runs, his lifetime .285 batting
average is miraculous for a catcher. Inducted into Cooperstown's
baseball hall of fame in 1972, Berra played in the majors from 1946 –
1965, receiving votes for league MVP for 15 consecutive seasons.
Yogi Berra was truly a
legend, apparently also quoted to say: “Always
go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours.”
More Yogi-isms:
It's
like deja-vu all over again.
Nobody
ever goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.
Baseball
is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
He
hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious
I
always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
When
you come to a fork in the road, take it
You
can observe a lot by watching
The future ain't what it used to be
The future ain't what it used to be
If
you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
He
must have made that (movie) before he died.
If
you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace
else.
We
made too many wrong mistakes.
Pie
a la mode, with ice cream.
You
better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to
eat six.
I'm
not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school
like I did.
I
don’t know (if they were male or female) fans running naked across
the field). They had bags over their heads.
I
never said most of the things I said.
LINKS:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/berrayo01.shtml
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/09/23/yogi-berra-world-war-ii-and-the-gradual-loss-of-sports-stars-who-served/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/09/23/yogi-berra-world-war-ii-and-the-gradual-loss-of-sports-stars-who-served/
I'm a Blue Jays fan, but a baseball fan first!
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
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Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
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