modern York Yankees baseball star known for his Yogisms such as ‘it ain’t over till it’s over’ Yogi Berra,1925-2015 : a life in picturesYogi Berra, who has died aged 90, or was one of baseball’s greatest catchers: he played on 14 American League championship teams and won 10 World Series titles,totals unmatched in the game’s history. But while his sporting fame matched that of his fellow modern York Yankees Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, he also achieved a much wider celebrity – first because he served as the model for the popular cartoon character Yogi Bear, and second because his pursuit of a highly personal logic created such “Yogisms as “it ain’t over till it’s over” and “its like deja vu all over again”,which hold long since passed into everyday currency.
A stocky 5ft 8in with a jug-eared gnomish face, Berra hardly looked like a sportsman. The baseball writer Bill James once quipped: “whether he were a piece of furniture, and you’d sand him.” But,as his longtime manager Casey Stengel, explained: He isn’t much to study at, and he looks like he’s doing everything wrong,but he can hit.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com