Baseball Legend Yogi Bera Dies at 90

[Dex]

Yogi Berra, the beloved baseball player who became known as much for mind-bending aphorisms like "It ain't over till it's over" as for his Hall of Fame career as a catcher, has died, Major League Baseball announced Wednesday. He was 90.

Berra, a fixture of 10 New York Yankees world championship teams who won three MVP awards and later managed pennant-winners for the Mets and Yankees, died late Tuesday, the league and his charitable organization said.

He played in more World Series games than any other player. But his cultural fame, which was so pronounced that it inspired a cartoon character, Yogi Bear, sprang from his seemingly endless supply of head-scratching catchphrases.

Berra held forth on economics: "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." On time: "It gets late early out there." On mathematics: "Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." And on the mysteries of life itself: "It's déjà vu all over again."

Not all of the malapropisms were his, as he himself conceded when he remarked, "I really didn't say everything I said."

The New York Yankees and MLB both described him an an "American hero."


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[men an tol]

Thanks for noting this Dex.

This is another part of my youth going away. All of us growing up in those years knew this icon.

He really was a role model for youth.

[Sysop3]

My dad's favorite part of the summer used to be sitting outside with his transistor radio listening to the pro baseball games. Yogi Berra was one of his heros for being a great player and down to earth too.

He could have watched the games but always liked to listen to them better. His friends in the neighborhood would stop and ask for the score and talk baseball for the whole afternoon.