Word: berra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CHICAGO--Yogi Berra was fired as manager of the New York Yankees yesterday and was replaced by Billy Martin, who will take over the team for the fourth time in his managing career...
There had been talk last season that Berra would be fired as the Yankees felt for behind the eventual World Series champion Detroit Tigers...
With that kind of fluctuation, it would have taken even a better seer than Berra to predict who would and up on top, let alone the manner in which the game would be decided...
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.--Yogs Berra hasn't been doing too well lately...
...best lines in this idiosyncratic little work are not from writers but from players, recollected over some four decades. Asked how he could look forward to playing a doubleheader in midsummer heat, Joe DiMaggio replies, "Well, maybe somebody never saw me before." Umpire Tom Gorman, distracted by Yogi Berra's wagging tongue, is asked, "Hello, Tom, how's the family?" Gorman: "They died last night. Get in there and hit." Pitcher Early Wynn defends his right to knock down anyone holding a bat. "Suppose it was your own mother," demands a listener. Replies Wynn: "Mother was a pretty good curve...