RIP Yogi Berra

[SteveA]

Passed away at age 90.

3 time AL MVP.

Played in 14 World Series.

15 All Star Games in 19 years.

[Moose Milligan]

More importantly, a WWII vet.

[Redskins Rick]

More importantly, a WWII vet.

I agree, like many players back in his era.

Probably might be the 2nd best catcher to have played the game, depending on your personal ranking system.

[OFFNY]

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[byrdz]

RIP Big loss.

[SteveA]

More importantly, a WWII vet.

Am I mistaken or did he take part in the Normandy invasion?

[NashLumber]

Am I mistaken or did he take part in the Normandy invasion?

He did. I was reminded of that today from a friend.

[NashLumber]

"Berra's Yogi-ness was exploited in advertisements for myriad products, among them Puss 'n Boots cat food and Miller Lite beer, but perhaps most famously, Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink.

Asked if Yoo-Hoo was hyphenated, he is said to have replied, "No, ma'am, it isn?t even carbonated.""

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/sports/baseball/yogi-berra-dies-at-90-yankees-baseball-catcher.html

[weams]

Am I mistaken or did he take part in the Normandy invasion?

Supposedly he was on the beach.

[weams]

Am I mistaken or did he take part in the Normandy invasion?

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5210564/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/yogi-berra-was-d-day/#.VgLwRctViko

Well, being a young guy, I thought it was like the Fourth of July, to tell you the truth. I said, "Boy, it looks pretty, all the planes coming over." And I was looking out and my officer said, "you better get your head down in here, if you want it on.:

Being a young guy, you didn‘t think nothing of it until you got in it. And so we went off 300 yards off beach. We protect the troops. If they ran into any trouble, we would fire the rockets over. We had a lead boat that would fire one rocket. If it hits the beach, then everybody opens up. We could fire one rocket if we wanted to, or we could fire off 24 or them, 12 on each side. We stretched out 50 yards apart. And that was the invasion.

Nothing happened to us. That's one good thing. Our boat could go anywhere, though. We were pretty good, flat bottom, 36-footer.

[NashLumber]

Someone will surely draw it better, but sort of something I came up with from some found images.

[weams]

"We had orders to shoot anything that came below the clouds. One of our own planes came down over the clouds and we shot it down. W were the closest to him to pick up the pilot. And you should have heard the words he was saying."

[Frobby]

One of the truly unique characters in the game, and a very humble man. My favorite Yogi stat is that despite the fact that he swung at a lot of pitches out of the strike zone, he only struck out 414 times while hitting 358 homers. It's frequently cited that DiMaggio had more homers than strikeouts (369 to 361), but Yogi came pretty close and actually struck out less often per plate appearance than DiMaggio did.

RIP, Yogi. It got late too early for you.

[NashLumber]

One of the truly unique characters in the game, and a very humble man. My favorite Yogi stat is that despite the fact that he swung at a lot of pitches out of the strike zone, he only struck out 414 times while hitting 358 homers. It's frequently cited that DiMaggio had more homers than strikeouts (369 to 361), but Yogi came pretty close and actually struck out less often per plate appearance than DiMaggio did.

RIP, Yogi. It got late too early for you.

That K ratio is staggering. As is DiMaggio's.

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