{"id":18388,"date":"2021-12-14T04:43:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T10:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18388"},"modified":"2021-12-13T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T21:33:20","slug":"book-51-of-52-yogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/book-51-of-52-yogi\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 51 (of 52) – Yogi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yogi: A Life Behind The Mask – Jon Pessah<\/p><\/div>\n

Lawrence Peter Berra was born on May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, the third child of Italian immigrants who wanted to try and make a living playing baseball.\u00a0 When the hometown Cardinals passed on him, Berra started playing in the local American Legion league, where he picked up a nickname: Yogi.\u00a0 After serving with the Navy in World War II, Yogi Berra made his mark with the New York Yankees.\u00a0 Over his career, he won 3 MVP awards, appeared in a record 14 World Series. and won 10 championships.\u00a0 After his playing career, he managed and coached for both the Yankees and the Mets.\u00a0 When he was fired by George Steinbrenner 16 games into the 1985 season, Berra vowed to never enter Yankee Stadium again as long as Steinbrenner owned the team.\u00a0 14 years later, Steinbrenner apologized and mended fences, bringing Berra back in to the fold, where he would remain until his 2015 death.<\/p>\n

I feel like for baseball fans of my era, Yogi Berra’s accomplishments on the baseball field were blunted by his reputation off of it, that of the bumbling goofball who says funny things.\u00a0 In fact, until fairly recently, I didn’t even know that he had coached with the Astros for 5 seasons following his fallout with the Yankees in 1985.\u00a0 Reading through this biography, I learned that Berra was not just along for the ride for Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle’s championship teams, but was instead the driving force that bridged those two eras and kept the Yankees the champions of the American League for all but 3 seasons of his career.\u00a0 I have a newfound respect for Berra and his place in baseball history.<\/p>\n

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Lawrence Peter Berra was born on May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, the third child of Italian immigrants who wanted to try and make a living playing baseball.\u00a0 When the hometown Cardinals passed on him, Berra started playing in the local American Legion league, where he picked up a nickname: Yogi.\u00a0 After serving with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,34],"tags":[9867,113,57,4801,5650,9869,261,5651,79,3417,4101,3353,51,5649,9868],"class_list":["post-18388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","category-baseball","tag-american-legion","tag-astros","tag-cardinals","tag-george-steinbrenner","tag-joe-dimaggio","tag-jon-pessah","tag-mets","tag-mickey-mantle","tag-mvp","tag-world-series","tag-world-war-ii","tag-yankee-stadium","tag-yankees","tag-yogi-berra","tag-yogi-a-life-behind-the-mask"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18392,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388\/revisions\/18392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}