Yogi Berra was one of a kind
Sometimes when you meet someone you have seen on TV or read about for years, you can be disappointed.
Because the initial encounter is nothing close to what you formulated in your mind’s eye.
That wasn’t the case with Lawrence Peter (Yogi) Berra on a night in 2008 at Yankee Stadium when the Blue Jays were in the Bronx.
As he sipped a tea standing outside manager Joe Girardi’s office, the Hall of Famer told a story about a recent trip. A traveller approached and said something commonplace from passers-by in airports.
The stranger asked: “You know, you look a lot like Yogi Berra.”
Berra replied: “A lot of people tell me that.”
Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel asked Jack O’Connell, secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers of America Association, to be introduced to Berra at a reception a few years ago at Cooperstown.
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