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Baseball's iconic character, Yogi Berra, died yesterday aged 90, it has been announced by the Yankees and the Yogi Berra Museum in New Jersey.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/s...kees-baseball-catcher.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1
Yogi Berra, one of baseballs greatest catchers and characters, who as a player was a mainstay of 10 Yankee championship teams and as a manager led both the Yankees and Mets to the World Series but who may be more widely known as an ungainly but lovable cultural figure, inspiring a cartoon character and issuing a seemingly limitless supply of unwittingly witty epigrams known as Yogi-isms died on Tuesday. He was 90...
When you come to a fork in the road, take it, he said, giving directions to his house. Either path, it turned out, got you there....
Whether Berra actually uttered the many things attributed to him, or was the first to say them, or phrased them precisely the way they were reported, has long been a matter of speculation. Berra himself published a book in 1998 called The Yogi Book: I Really Didnt Say Everything I Said!...
Much more at link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/s...kees-baseball-catcher.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1