num_pages: 167
description: A collection of quotes anecdotes and malaprops from one of baseballs wisest and wittiest personalities. New York Times bestselling author Phil Pepe takes readers along on Yogi Berras journey from St. Louis to New Yorks Yankee Stadium including all the stops along the wayfrom his days as a tack-puller in a womens shoe factory to a pre-game tribute in St. Louis when he coined the phrase I want to thank all those that made this night necessary to his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Pepe explores Yogi Berra as a boy player hero coach manager husband father and jokester including all of the Yogi-isms in an absorbing treatment that is simultaneously comical thoughtful and biographical. Famous - About a popular Nobody goes there anymore. Its too crowded.- On Little League I think its wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.- On why the Yankees lost the 1960 World We made too many wrong mistakes.
language: English
title: The Wit and Wisdom of Yogi Berra
publisher: Diversion Books