RIP Yogi Berra

Cut that pizza into 4 pieces, I'm not hungry enough for 6.

"Make sure you go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."

Or something like that. Man was a genius with a turn of phrase.

Never heard of the guy until I saw it on the news. Totally thought they were saying Yogi Bear.

Kuriin_sl said:

Never heard of the guy until I saw it on the news. Totally thought they were saying Yogi Bear.

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Yogi Bear was named after this man!

10 World Series rings is unfathomable in this day and age(and he actually played in 14)

Dude was 5'7", won 3 MVP's, and hit more home runs than Frank Thomas, Darryl Strawberry, Mo Vaugn, Cecil Fielder, Gary Carter, and George Brett. One season, He had 656 plate appearance and struck out 12 times... He wasn't just another guy on those 10 World Series teams, sometimes, he was THE guy.

Fight_sl said:

Dude was 5'7", won 3 MVP's, and hit more home runs than Frank Thomas, Darryl Strawberry, Mo Vaugn, Cecil Fielder, Gary Carter, and George Brett. One season, He had 656 plate appearance and struck out 12 times... He wasn't just another guy on those 10 World Series teams, sometimes, he was THE guy.

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Not quite

Frank Thomas has 500+ career HR, Yogi is like 350-ish

But I get your point. Yogi had good power, and also stayed productive for pretty much his entire career...his production didn't go into the tank after 10 or 12 years like a lot of guys (Mo Vaughn, Cecil Fielder, Darryl Strawberry from your example all hit 90% of their career HRs in about a 10 year span)

Frank Thomas Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.comGet your facts straight. LOL
Career Leaders & Records for Home Runs | Baseball-Reference.com

Two of the more impressive Yogi stats.

Over his 19 year career, only struck out 414 times and never more than 38 times in a season

At a time when they used to play a lot of day-night doubleheaders, Berra caught 119 of them (meaning both games). There was one season in the 50's where the Yankees played 22 day-night doubleheaders. He caught 21 of them.

Durability/playtime stats in general were pretty strange back then. Bob Feller had 279 complete games pitched. Cy Young had 749!

Sterling_sl said:

Durability/playtime stats in general were pretty strange back then. Bob Feller had 279 complete games pitched. Cy Young had 749!

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I heard something interesting yesterday. When Berra first came up, he was there to see Ruth's farewell (the last time Ruth was seen in public). On the field that day honoring Ruth? 85 year old Cy Young.

Vandyn_sl said:

I heard something interesting yesterday. When Berra first came up, he was there to see Ruth's farewell (the last time Ruth was seen in public). On the field that day honoring Ruth? 85 year old Cy Young.

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I always get a kick out of it whenever at the big events they bring out the alltime greats. Whatever you want to say about the game, baseball has awesome history and some real legendary personalities.