The Yogi Book

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Celebrate one of the most greatest and most beloved baseball players who ever lived—and certainly the most quoted. The Yogi Book is the New York Times bestseller filled with Yogi Berra’s immortal sayings, plus photographs, a career timeline, and appreciations by some of his greatest fans, including Billy Crystal and Tim McCarver.

Yogi Berra’s gift for saying the smartest things in the funniest, most memorable ways has made him a legend. The Yogi Book brings all of his famous quotes together in one place—and even better, gives the story at the back of them. “It ain’t over till it’s over.”—that’s Yogi’s answer to a reporter when he was managing the Mets in July 1973, and they were nine games out of first place (not only quotable, but prophetic—they won the pennant). “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”—Yogi’s comment to Stan Musial and Joe Garagiola about Ruggeri’s restaurant in St. Louis in 1959. “It gets late early out there.”—Yogi describing how shadows crept across Yankee Stadium’s left field all the way through late autumn afternoons.
 

If the subtitle of this delicious collection of Yogi-isms has you scratching your head, it has done its job as stunningly as Berra used to do his at the back of the plate at Yankee Stadium. The Hall of Fame MVP catcher for the pinstriped dynasties of the late 1940s through the ’50s and into the ’60s, Berra was about as quick with his witticisms as he was with his bat and glove. But if his observations hit the heart of the plate, his grammar tended to pop out of left field, hence the creation of a unique mode of malapropism dubbed the Yogi-ism. To in reality understand the title, you want to know that not every mot ascribed to Yogi in fact emanated from his mouth–they only sounded like they should have. Thus, he in point of fact didn’t say everything he said, which makes The Yogi Book absolutely necessary (see page 10).

To the things that Yogi did say, The Yogi Book does both service and justice. It gathers the witticisms in a single convenient volume, adds a scrapbook of photos, then lets their progenitor riff, filling in color statement on what was happening beyond his mind and what was going through it when the famous phrases were dispatched into the public domain. He deservedly takes credit for such immortal pronunciamentos as “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” (page 16); “It’s deja vu everywhere again.” (page 30); “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” (page 48); “The future ain’t what it used to be.” (page 118); “It gets late early out there.” (page 64); and “Ninety percent of this game is half mental.” (page 69). All, like the sacred texts they happen to be, are as it should be parsed for your edification, as is the greatest Yogi-ism of them all: “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” (page 121).

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