When I heard Yogi Berra passed away, I immediately went downstairs and grabbed it. There wasn’t room in the organized hoard which is my “entertainment” bookshelf so I tossed this one on the coffee table in case the boys wanted to read it. I cleaned out a closet a couple of weeks ago and discovered this little book. “You can’t think and hit at the same time” “Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical” In fact, we are the ones who still have to force the children to come back inside – neither rain nor snow or sleet nor hail keeps them indoors and as Yogi’s quotes will tell you, baseball teaches some valuable life lessons. While other parents moan and groan about “how different things were when they were kids” my husband and I don’t have those experiences at all. “Little league baseball is a good thing ‘cause it keeps the parents off streets and the kids out of the house!” In my present life I have the privilege of raising a couple of my own little leaguers. I was raised in the Church of Baseball by a family of loyal Cubs fans. I get asked quite frequently how I have time to read all of the books I read. "It gets late early out there."―Yogi describing how shadows crept across Yankee Stadium's left field during late autumn afternoons. "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."―Yogi's comment to Stan Musial and Joe Garagiola about Ruggieri's Restaurant in St. "It ain't over 'til it's over."―that’s Yogi's answer to a reporter when he was managing the Mets in July 1973, and they were nine games out of first place (not only quotable, but prophetic―they won the pennant). Winston Churchill has been replaced by Yogi Berra as the favorite source of quotations." The Yogi Book brings all of his famous quotes together in one place―and even better, gives the story behind them. Or, as The New Yorker put it, "Hardly anybody would quarrel that. And it's timed to coincide with the 85th birthday of this American legend who's more beloved than ever.Īs for the quotes, well, Yogi Berra's gift for saying the smartest things in the funniest, most memorable ways has made him a legend.
The Yogi Book, the New York Times bestseller, now has a fresh new design throughout, new photographs, a career timeline, and all-new appreciations by some of his greatest fans, including Billy Crystal. "It's déjà vu all over again"―only better.
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