Word: yogis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Never before has the light bulb, once considered the most innovative creation of the past 100 years, created so much hysteria. Run for your lives, the lights are on at Wrigley. Yogi and the fat lady can start singing now. It's going, going, gone...
George Will for one--and that should have been reason enough to convince any right-thinking fan to smile broadly last night. In the past few years, the Yogi Berras of the game have taken a back seat to what Stephen Jay Gould recently called the "pointy-heads." These are the people who see in every ground ball to short a reference to Shakespeare. Baseball's funny men loved their game, but, thank God, they knew it was a game and they didn't take it too seriously. Can you imagine Yogi saying, as the No Lights fanatics...
That is not necessarily the final deal. Negotiations are continuing, and Jackson can be expected to keep pressing for more. As he put it, one-upping Yogi Berra: "It ain't over till it's over -- and even then, it's not over...
...Billy Hunter, Jimmy Piersall, Larry Doby and Roy Campanella, they were as preliminary as Jack Dempsey's first fights under the name Kid Blackie. In the Ring book, Martin's official record begins in 1957 at New York City's Copacabana nightclub, where Yankee Teammates Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Hank Bauer and Johnny Kucks were toasting Martin's 29th birthday at the same time that a Bronx man named Edward Jones was celebrating the end of the bowling season...
Maybe because Winfield portrayed George as a bumbling court jester. Winfield made George look stupid. And no one in New York can make George look stupid. Just ask Sparky Lyle, Yogi Berra, Bob Lemon, Billy Martin (at least four times), the New York Mets...