Yogi Berra

Many people only know Yogi Berra through his famous Yogi-ism, but he was an outstanding baseball player for The New York Yankees playing in 14 World Series and winning ten times.

Berra died at 90 at his New Jersey home on September 22.

He had only an eighth grade education.

But it is his Yogi-isms that almost everyone knows.

When asked what time it was, he replied, “You mean now”.

“It ain’t over until it’s over” his way of describing a particularly hard baseball season.

“When you come to the fork in the road, take it” was attributed to Yogi but some are not sure.  Well, it doesn’t matter anyway.

Here’s who Yogi Berra is beyond the stats and quotes.

When unpredictable Yankees owner George Steinbrenner fired Berra a few games into a new season that was bad enough but it was the way that Berra was fired that got him.

Through a messenger!

Berra considered it an unforgivable example of rudeness and disrespect and refused to have anything to do with the Yankees until Steinbrenner apologized over a decade later in 1999.

Steinbrenner called firing Yogi Berra the worst mistake he ever made in baseball.

What an example Berra made of standing up for what’s right.

Turning away the accolades of others for all those lost years to stand on principle.

Yogi Berra received loud and sustained ovations at Yankee stadium after the Steinbrenner apology and his return to New York.

The right thing to do is not always easy but if we’re ever looking for courage, look no further than Yogi Berra.

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