Word: yogis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best shortstop in baseball [Phil Rizzuto, Most Valuable Player in the American League in 1950] ... I got the best catcher [Yogi Berra, 1951 M.V.P.], and I got two others to back him up [Ralph Houk and Charlie Silvera]. If he [Berra] wasn't such a good hitter, I'd play the others more. They can catch as good...
...Thomas Sugrue is a Catholic in anything but name, then I am a Hindu yogi...
...Lawrence ("Yogi") Berra, the New York Yankees' hard-hitting (27 homers) catcher, the Baseball Writers' poll as most valuable American League player of the year. In close second place: St. Louis Pitcher Ned Carver, who won 20 games for the hapless Browns. ¶ Colonel Humberto Mariles of the Mexican Army equestrian team, five of nine jumping contests, a record individual performance, at the National Horse Show; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. ¶Stanford University's football team, an inside track to the Rose Bowl by upsetting the University of Southern California with three fourth-quarter...
...thought. Suddenly, there was a swelling roar from the crowd. There on the base path Irvin was digging for the plate. In that paralyzed instant, the startled Reynolds looked up. Irvin was ten steps from home. Reynolds drew back his arm (eight steps) and threw hastily to Yogi Berra (six steps) and Irvin hurtled into his slide. Berra stretched for the high throw, and Irvin was across. With a roar of delight, the crowd leaped to its feet. The brash Giants had stolen home on the proud Yankees. They were ahead 2-0. In discomfiture, Berra glared wildly around...
Pitchers Vic Raschi, Ed Lopat, Allie Reynolds have received credit for a great many victories. Their talents may be questioned, though I shall not question them, but the fact remains. The clutch hitting of Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Jerry Coleman, and Gil McDouglad may be questioned, but every game has a winning run, and those men have batted in a great many of them...