Earlier this week Yogi Berra passed away. There were many tributes to him on social media. I tossed up a few, finding a few not so well known nuggets. These are what I put on
my twitter account.
I'm always curious to see where people are from. Using Ancestry.com I was able to locate the Berra family in St. Louis in 1930. Little Lawrence was not yet five years old.
Boy's Life magazine featured a picture of a youngish Yogi in 1950.
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| Boy's Life - September, 1950 |
Columbia Records, in 1952, issued several records of baseball players giving advice about the game. The four players were Ralph Kiner, Phil Rizzuto, Yogi, and Bob Feller. Here's a review from
Billboard Magazine.
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| Billboard Magazine -June 14, 1952 |
I was surprised to find out that Yogi was ejected from games in five decades.
Yogi as cover boy...
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| Boy's Life - April, 1963 |
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| Boy's Life - April, 1963 |
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| Boy's Life - April, 1963 |
If you'd like to read the whole story,
here it is.
Did you know that Phil Rizzuto and Yogi had a bistro? And that it had a discotheque? And you couldn't dance? Me, neither.
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| Billboard - August 14, 1965 |
Thank you, Mr. Berra, for adding so much to the game of baseball. Rest in peace.
