And if it did, then we let out, shoot them all. I’d be a Triple A ballplayer, that’s about it. (Larry) McPhail was our general manager. The next time, I hit at it, and I do something with it. I played with Junior Thompson, who pitched for Cincinnati; Jim Gleason, who played with Cincinnati. I owe everything to Bill Dickey, I really do. See, I wanted to sign with the St. Louis Cardinals, either that, or the St. Louis Browns.

Proud of it. When I’d go out at night, he’d say, “What time are you coming home tonight?” He made me make the time. I’m not going…”“Now we’re going to send you up to a ship’s company, you get on the base up there.” I said, “Okay.” So I went in, and they had a ball team, and we were making the ball team there. Worked me to death, and I loved him for it. I just liked to talk to the hitters. You missed that, Cal. But, I don’t do it on purpose, that’s the bad part about it. And he asked me, “What do you do?” I said, “I play ball.” He thought I was a boxer at first, you know. A perfect game. They’re making the parks small.

Died: 2015, West Caldwell, New Jersey In August of 1972 Cooperstown welcomed a star-studded group of inductees for the Class of 1972. They just pop up, you know. Don’t talk to me when I’m hitting.” Ted Williams used to say, “You old dago, you’re twisted up.” I’d say, “When you going fishing this year, Ted?” And he didn’t like to talk. I made him a coach after I was manager. He was in charge of — the athletic director there.

You know, usually when you get a museum named after you, you’re dead.

I still love it.Yogi Berra: He didn’t think nothing about that. He wanted to know, “Who in the hell is this kid Yogi Berra that they want to give me $50,000 for?”Yogi Berra: No, it wasn’t that difficult. And if I ever came home with dirty pants, I really caught a beating. I really do. Leavy recalls a story from Berra's wife, Carmen, who told her one of the couple's first apartments had a Murphy bed which Yogi had never encountered before.LEAVY: So Yogi walked in and said, what are you supposed to do sleep standing up? If I’m going to suffer, you’re going to suffer with me.”Yogi Berra: I don’t know. I play a lot of golf. Maguire said “I’m going to call you Yogi” and from that moment on, the name stuck.One thing is clear, as colorful as Yogi’s stories were and as popular as his star shined off of the field, he was also quite the character behind home plate. And you had to get four hits before you get a run. But, they only played on Sundays. Shortly thereafter, Rickey moved from the Cardinals to the Brooklyn Dodgers and finally offered Berra the $500 a week he had insisted on, but by then Berra had accepted an equivalent offer from the New York Yankees. The three Most Valuable Players, getting elected in the Hall of Fame. Yogi had them psyched out and he wasn't even trying to psych them out.” What was even more amazing was that when he donned the “tools of ignorance,” he had a reputation as being one of the best in the business behind the plate.“Why has our pitching been so great?," Stengel once asked. They really — every chance they had. In seiner 19-jährigen Karriere bei den Yankees dominierten die „B… Berra became the manager of the Mets in 1972, the same year he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. It came easy for me. He was 90. I liked that better. The pitchers were afraid of him because he'd hit anything, so they didn't know what to throw. You know, “There’s something wrong here. And, Jim Gleason that played with the Cincinnati Reds was our lieutenant commander there. And, we went for seven innings like that. And he didn’t know what baseball was. I celebrated at the golf club. As a manager, he won pennants for both the Yankees in 1964 and the Mets in 1973.His trademark “Yogi-isms,” such as “It ain’t over ’til it’s over” and “It’s déjà vu all over again,” have become part of the American vernacular. He almost never struck out. I went to school, and I got out of school, and I went to work. Dickey also helped me. “Give him a chance to go out and play ball.” And, he says, “Okay.”So, I signed up. It was hot. I played second base, I pitched a little bit, and I played outfield. If you weren’t home at that time, you’d get it. And we had fun. That’s why I like it. My brother Mike played semi-pro ball. We could shoot out rockets. But, it takes a little time. Yogi Berra was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. I kind of skipped work a little bit, and I started to play.Yogi Berra: No. Yogi Berra's good-natured charm concealed a deadly combination of power and accuracy in the batter's box. Credit... Ezra O. Shaw/Getty Images. You’ve got to have fun. And then I had three other brothers and a sister. I wanted to play for St. Louis. Casey, referring to Yogi, said, I never play a game without my man. And, they’re the ones that taught my dad to go and play baseball. Managing, I got knocked off twice.Yogi Berra: No, I didn’t deserve it. He became the Yankees’ manager in 1964, leading the team to victory in the American League pennant race that year, but losing to the Cardinals in a seven-game World Series. But some of these guys, like Herb Score, if he got it over, tough luck.


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