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...Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Bera and Elston Howard...
...fact, the 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...
...Yogi Berra would say, it's never over 'til it's over...
...Yogi Berra says, 'It's never over 'til it's over,' and that's true of negotiations as well." So said United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber early last Saturday morning, after the midnight deadline had passed for a new contract agreement between the U.A.W. and General Motors. The union had just announced that it was authorizing workers at 13 key GM facilities to go on strike, purportedly because of local grievances, while it continued bargaining for a new labor contract...
Followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the TM movement's founder, told the council that if a group comprising the square root of 1 percent of a city's population mediate together, the rate of crime, accidents and sickness will decrease, and "an ideal quality of city, state and national life" will be created...