I love to celebrate birthdays, even when I’ve never met the person.
YOGI BERRA’S birthday is this week (May 12, 1925- September 22, 2015). I’m not a baseball fan, but I used to be. In case I haven’t mentioned it often enough: one of my first publications was in a baseball magazine, the story of my devastation when the Braves left Boston in the early 1950’s, the first major league team to leave its hometown.
I have a soft spot in my heart for all the old Braves — remember “Spahn, Sain, and pray for rain” — but also for the Yankees, just because they’re New York. And who has more brilliant quotes than that famous Yankee, Yogi Berra:
• You can observe a lot just by watching.
• When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
• You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.
• It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.
• A nickel isn’t worth a dime today.
• Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.
• Do you mean now? (When asked for the time.)
• You give 100 % in the first half of the game, and if that isn’t enough, in the second half you give what’s left.
• I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
• If the fans don’t come out to the ball park, you can’t stop them.
I know I should have shortened this list, but, to quote Yogi:
I didn’t really say everything I said.
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Nice, Jim.
He also said, “That was a really good pitch I hit, Newk”, when Don Newcombe came to bat after giving up a 3-run homer to Berra in the World Series. Newcombe replied, “Thanks, Yog”.