Word: berra
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...looked like the staging area for the world's largest order of French fries. But no, it was merely one more odd happening in the life of Baseball Legend Yogi Berra, who last week wound up with a ton of taters on the lawn of his Montclair, N.J., home. The seed for Berra's bumper harvest was planted last summer at a celebrity golf tournament near Grand Forks, N. Dak. Berra reportedly asked what folks around those parts did for a living and was told that they grew potatoes. To which Berra replied, "I didn't think they'd grow...
...recently had a chance to interview Charlie Silvera, who backed up Yogi Berra at catcher for the Yankees from 1948 to 1956, and the first thing he mentions is the intensity around the right field corner and bullpen area...
...father Charles in the Chicago White Sox dugout at Yankee Stadium, just as so many years earlier, like so many sons and fathers, they must have sat together in ball parks. Reversing and updating the dialogue, Seaver said, "Look over at the batting cage, dad. There's Yogi Berra...
...still is--but as it turns out, some of those very characteristics proved the making of Howard Dean. In his unlikely transition from underfunded obscurity to the front of the Democratic pack, Iowa was where he found both his voice and his rationale for running. To paraphrase Yogi Berra, Dean discovered you can hear a lot just by listening. He had planned to run on a high-fiber policy diet of health care, early-childhood education and fiscal discipline, he recently told TIME. But in Iowa he learned something about voters that had not yet popped up on the national...
William Apgar, a former U.S. assistant secretary of housing who recently returned to the Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, called the Cambridge residential situation “the classic Yogi Berra story—all those yuppies funneled in here expecting [diversity], and now it’s not the place they wanted...