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Title: Yogi remembered for kindness, wisdom
Source: MLB.Com
URL Source: http://m.yankees.mlb.com/news/artic ... partnerId=ed-9746562-836398023
Published: Sep 23, 2015
Author: Richard Justice
Post Date: 2015-09-23 09:19:24 by redleghunter
Keywords: None
Views: 1972
Comments: 7

He hoped Yogi Berra would make him a better catcher. That ended up being the least of it.

"He made me a better man," Craig Biggio remembered.

This is the kind of story you will hear again and again as baseball mourns the passing of one of its greatest players and finest gentlemen.

• Yogi Berra passes away; HOF legend was 90

In the beginning, Yankee fans loved Yogi because he was one of the greatest players ever. He understood the game from every angle.

Later, he would become almost as famous for his funny stories and cryptic wisdom. But the people who knew him best always pointed to other things.

That he was a kind man with a huge heart. Yes, he had amazing insight into the game.

"We'd be sitting there on the bench," Biggio said, "and Yogi would say something that didn't really make a lot of sense."

Here's the punch line.

"An inning later, you were sitting there watching something Yogi had told you was going to happen," Biggio said. "You just didn't understand it at the time."

Berra became Biggio's tutor after joining the Astros' coaching staff in the 1980s just as the youngster was beginning what would be a Hall of Fame career.

They clicked from the beginning. The younger guy asked questions. The older man offered advice on everything from defensive positioning to calling games to hitting.

But those aren't the lessons that endured. The most important lessons, the things he passed onto his own kids, were about being a professional, a true big leaguer. About being a good teammate. About putting winning first.

"I learned so much from that man," Biggio said. "I can look back and see that a lot of what I tried to become can be traced to the lessons I learned from Yogi.

"But more than any of that was just the man he was. He was such a good man, such a kind man. He was one of those people you wanted to please, but you also knew you could learn so much from him."

Brewers general manager Doug Melvin learned some of the same lessons early in his career. He would find himself sitting at games or at meals with Yogi when both were with the Yankees. He was mesmerized.

For years afterward, Melvin went out of his way to look up Yogi and "to pick his brain."

"He's one of the great baseball men ever," Melvin said, "and you could just throw out game situations or problems you were having with players. Yogi's advice was based on a basic understanding of baseball and of having spent a lifetime in it."

Yogi's values were about as basic as could be. He thought doing the right thing -- and there's no gray area -- took precedence over everything else.

Did he make people laugh?

Yep, plenty of times.

Once when two Yankee coaches, Joe Altobelli and Mike Ferraro, were living with Yogi and Carmen Berra, the three men would drive home together from Yankee Stadium after games.

"Carmen would have some wine and cold cuts for us," Altobelli remembered, "and we'd sit around and talk about the day and catch up on what was happening in the world."

At some point, Ferraro and Altobelli would drift over to the television, turn it on and settle in.

"Only thing is, when Yogi was ready for bed, he'd walk over, turn the television off and say, `Time to go to bed, boys,'" Altobelli said. "He was looking after us just like he looked after his own sons."

And?

"And Mike and I would head off to bed," Altobelli said. "If Yogi wanted you to go to bed, then you went to bed. We had a game the next day."

When people reflect on Berra's wonderful life, they will begin with him being one of the greatest Yankees who ever lived, with three American League MVP Awards and being an 18-time All-Star and Hall of Famer.

Berra also helped define an era that created millions of baseball fans. He's one of the players who connected generations of fans, those who saw him play and those who heard about him and came to love him -- and his sport -- as well.

Berra was so beloved as both a player and a man that he remained almost as popular at the end of his life as he did at the height of his career.

But to others, those who knew him best, those who played with him and for him and just got to know him, his legacy will be far beyond that.

He will be remembered for his honesty and decency, for being one of those people who made every stranger feel that three minutes spent with Yogi were the best three minutes of his day.

Berra had risen from working-class St. Louis to the highest level of prominence in this country. But he always carried with him the humility of his upbringing and the appreciation that he'd been remarkably blessed.

And Berra was blessed in so many ways. He'd be the first to say that.

But the real blessing flowed to those who came to love him and to feel his love and warmth. They will miss him terribly. But he will live forever in their hearts.


Poster Comment:

The Hall of Famer died at the of 90 on Tuesday evening, the Yogi Berra Museum announced.

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#1. To: CZ82, liberator, tomder55, Justified, GarySpFc (#0)

PING.

To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6

redleghunter  posted on  2015-09-23   9:20:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: redleghunter (#0)

Wonderful eulogy and tribute to one of the greatest players who's ever played the game. I've heard and read many like that today ,and few reflect on his great achievements on the field ,but how kind a man he was.

I was too young to see him play behind the plate . By the time I was paying attention to baseball ,he had already moved to the outfield . My first memories of him was the commercials he made for Yoohoo ,which of course was my favorite drink .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtbulcYcHc4

The story goes that one time a woman asked Yogi if Yoohoo was hyphenated . He replied 'no ,it's not even carbonated '.

Yanks and Mets fans have something in common . Yogi managed both teams to the World Series (Yanks 1964 ,Mets 1973 ) The Yanks lost to the great Cards team led by Bob Gibson in 7 games . The Mets lost to the great Oakland A's team that won 3 straight World Series titles in 7 games. He was rewarded by both teams be being fired . The Yanks fired him after the World Series defeat . The Mets waited one year . So added to his great achievements as a ball player ,he is one of only seven managers to win pennants in both leagues (Joe McCarthy, Alvin Dark, Dick Williams, Sparky Anderson, Tony LaRussa and Jim Leyland are the others).

Yogi was also a sailor who took part in the Normandy invasion. Yogi was one of a six-man crew on a Navy rocket boat, firing machine guns and launching rockets at the German defenses at Omaha Beach. Rocketboats were speedy, 36-foot gunships, manned by a crew of six and armed with 24 rockets and two .30-caliber machine guns and a twin .50-caliber machine gun. The men on the boats trained in a top-secret program, preparing for a dangerous mission; those 24 boats would be out in front of the full landing force of the Allied invasion on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Yogi Berra volunteered for it, though he may not have known what he was getting into. “I signed up for the amphibs (amphibious landing crafts),” he recalled. Dave Kaplan, the executive director of the Berra museum, said Yogi became a “rocketboat man” because the word “rocket” appealed to him in a Buck Rogers kind of way. “He thought it had an adventurous sound to it,” Kaplan said.

After basic training in Bainbridge, Md., and rocketboat training in Norfolk, Berra shipped out, as yet still unaware of his destination or his mission. “I thought we were going to Japan,” Berra said.

Soon enough, he knew. They were going to England to invade France. And they were going first.

"It was like the 4th of July out there."

The boats broke out of the dawn mist on the English Channel, firing rockets at fortified German positions. Part of the job was to fire and part was to draw fire, so the German machine gun nests could be identified for airstrikes.

“It was like the 4th of July out there,” Berra said. “You couldn’t stick your head up or it would get blown off.”

Part of the job was to shoot down any plane “that flew beneath the clouds,” Berra said. “One of the first ones we got was one of our own. They were yelling at us, ‘What the hell are you doing?’

“And the way those waves were sending us up and down, we had to be careful we didn’t shoot each other.”

In the later hours, the boats circled back and exchanged more gunfire. In the days after the landing, they patrolled the coast, still being strafed by the enemy and returning fire. Berra remembers firing his “twin 50” into a German gun nest ensconced in a hotel on Utah Beach. “I think I might have got a couple of them,” he said with the little laugh that punctuates much of what he says.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_mark_diionno/2013/10/yogi_berras_d-day_service_reme.html

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

tomder55  posted on  2015-09-23   10:46:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: CZ82, liberator, Justified, GarySpFc (#2)

ping

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

tomder55  posted on  2015-09-23   10:47:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: redleghunter (#0)

I was surprised at the news of his death.

But then I thought he had been dead for the last 20 years. So I was mostly surprised he was still alive to begin with.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-09-23   23:27:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: TooConservative, liberator, tomder55, CZ82 (#4)

I think someone posted his 90th birthday celebration during the summer. Think it was Tomder or Liberator

To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6

redleghunter  posted on  2015-09-23   23:43:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: redleghunter (#0)

When I lived in Parsipanny NJ, he was well known around town. He would always be very gracious with his time and attention, and everyone thought he was one hell of a guy. His wife wasn't really liked that well though, she didn't like him giving out autographs at all, or even spending any time with his many fans.

Dead Culture Watch  posted on  2015-09-24   3:09:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Dead Culture Watch (#6)

When I lived in Parsipanny NJ, he was well known around town. He would always be very gracious with his time and attention, and everyone thought he was one hell of a guy. His wife wasn't really liked that well though, she didn't like him giving out autographs at all, or even spending any time with his many fans.

Seems to be the majority opininon of Yogi. You don't even have a spoiled child in their later years railing about him...That's quite a job at fathering too in such a 'away from home' summer job.

To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6

redleghunter  posted on  2015-09-24   17:05:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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