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Chapters: Yogi Berra, Casey Stengel, Ryan Howard, Bob Miller, Dick Williams, Mark Buehrle, Elston Howard, David Cone, Ken Holtzman, Zack Wheat, Joe Garagiola, Sr., Donn Clendenon, Clete Boyer, Ed Blake, Carl Hubbell, Al Newman, Walker Cooper, Smoky Joe Wood, Clark Griffith, Ken Boyer, Rick Sutcliffe, Art Shamsky, John Mayberry, Jr., Bill Mueller, Bug Holliday, Darrell Porter, Darren Oliver, Scott Cooper, Ted Breitenstein, Hoot Evers, Joe Crede, Jerry Reuss, Pete Reiser, Ron Hunt, Muddy Ruel, John O'donoghue, Roy Sievers, Mickey Owen, Mayo Smith, Mel Stottlemyre, Ross Detwiler, Dale Long, Charlie Kerfeld, Lou Sleater, Charlie Grimm, Harry Bright, Blake Dewitt, Pud Galvin, Al Smith, Jake Beckley, Dick Sisler, Jack O'connor, Steve Rogers, Bob Allison, Frank Shellenback, Lonny Frey, Murry Dickson, Max Scherzer, Mike Shannon, Morgan Burkhart, Herschel Bennett, Tom Henke, Mort Cooper, Zach Miner, Robert Person, Andy Ashby, Matt Whiteside, Buddy Blattner, John Fulgham, Shaun Marcum, Silver King, Patsy Tebeau, Bobby Byrne, Chuck Workman, Curt Davis, Dick Hall, Clem Dreisewerd, Dennis Tankersley, Art Croft, Jeff Tesreau, Harry Steinfeldt, Nick Cullop, Kid Durbin, Bill Joyce, Tom Funk, George Van Haltren, Nate Colbert, Steve Bieser, Creepy Crespi, Bake Mcbride, Vern Kennedy, Bernard Gilkey, Bob Scheffing, Tom Upton, Jay Marshall, Ival Goodman, Sam Agnew, Carl Morton, Scott Elbert, Phil Todt, Johnny Schulte, Brian Boehringer, Preston Ward, Kyle Mcclellan, Bud Metheny, Frank Saucier, Josh Outman, Tom Loftus, Ken Berry, George Tebeau, Kennie Steenstra, Brad Holman, Bobby Livingston, Bobby Hofman, George Stovall, Ken Sanders, Jumbo Elliott, Perry Werden, Kit Pellow, Jay Ward, Steve Luebber, A. J. Ellis, Ray Sanders, Bob Dernier, Mark Littell, Bob Keppel, Frank Huelsman, Glenn Wright, Scott Sanders, Norm Siebern, Sonny Siebert, Tyler Johnson, Joe Becker, Don Mueller, Heinie Mueller, Juan Eichelberger, Scarborough Green, Ivy Olson, Lee Ste...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2243106 ... Read more

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By all accounts, the perfect game pitched by New YorkYankee right-hander Don Larson in the 1956 World Series qualifies as atrue miracle. No one knows why it happened, or why an unlikelybaseball player like Don Larson was chosen to per- form it. In ThePerfect Yankee, Larson and co-author Mark Shaw describe for the firsttime the facts surrounding one of the most famous games in baseballhistory.Amazon.com Review
Yankee faithful and haters alike will relish this pitch-by-pitchretelling of one of baseball's most remarkable feats: Don Larsen's perfectgame in game five of the 1956 World Series. Larsen, one of the game's belovedfigures, has remained humble and unaffected as his record has stoodunequalled for four decades. In this book with sports journalist Mark Shaw,he throws in asides on his teammates, his opponents, even the umpires whoworked the game. Larsen's memoir recalls a time when nobody spat in anyone'sface, strikes were called only on the field, and baseball was still thenational pastime. ... Read more

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Riveting! a review from a former minor leaguer turned teacher, principal, writer
My wife, who really is not a baseball fan, recently commented on how few perfect games have ever been tossed in Major League history.I explained to her that one of the perfect games was a World Series game.She responded, "That'll never happen again, huh?"No, it never will. So buy this book and relive one of baseball's most historic games.

GREAT RETELLING OF PERFECTION
THIS IS THE STORY OF THE ONLY PERFECT GAME EVER PITCHED IN THE WORLD SERIES. THE PLACE IS YANKEE STADIUM IN 1956. FROM HERE DON LARSEN WHO PITCHED THIS GEM AND ALSO WROTE THIS JEWEL OF A BOOK, DESCRIBES IN DEATIL EVERY EXCITING MOMENT HE CAN RECALL ON THIS HISTORIC DAY OF OCT 8TH. HE ALSO GIVES US A LITTLE ABOUT HIS LIFE AND FAMILY. BUT THE MAIN FOCUS IS THE PERFECT GAME. I REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK AND I RECOMMEND IT TO ALL BASEBALL FANS WHO ENJOY A PIECE OF HISTORY CONCERNING THE GRAND GAME. I AM NOT A YANKEE FAN BUT I COULDNT HELP BUT ROOT FOR LARSEN AS THE BOOK DESCRIBES EACH OUT, GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO IMMORTALITY FOR LARSEN. A MUST READ.

Big Surprise
Considering Im not a Yankee fan, far from one actually, the fact I loved this book should appear odd. But this story about an average player accomplishing something that no one ever has or will ever do ever again. It just makes me want to cry, that's why I gave this book 5 out of 5. Baseball is a great sport!

BTW, All the facts in this book are correct, no facts are wrong... I think the guy on the bottom is drunk.

The Perfect Yankee is perfect.
Baseball books are a dime a dozen, but the story of Don Larsen's remarkable achievement is outstanding.Author Shaw captures Larsen's voice and the miracle that occurred on October 8, 1956.This is a must read for any baseball fan.

A Complete Waste of Time
I have rarely been as disappointed in a book as I was by this one. The book abounds with errors of fact, misspellings and boring retelling of stories well known to any baseball fan. The only thing perfect about this book is that it's perfectly dreadful. ... Read more

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Chapters: Frank Robinson, Yogi Berra, Paul Molitor, Don Mattingly, Tim Raines, Eddie Murray, Joe Girardi, Terry Francona, Johnny Pesky, Jerry Manuel, Mike Scioscia, Willie Randolph, Alan Trammell, Don Zimmer, Kirk Gibson, Grady Little, Harold Baines, Felipe Alou, Robin Yount, Jimy Williams, Jim Tracy, John Gibbons, Scott Radinsky, Joe Maddon, Lance Parrish, Red Schoendienst, Bobby Wine, Art Howe, Don Wakamatsu, Bucky Dent, Ken Macha, Don Buford, Billy Williams, Billy Hatcher, José Oquendo, Tony Peña, Lee Mazzilli, Bob Watson, John Mclaren, Cecil Cooper, Tim Johnson, Bill Virdon, Jim Beauchamp, Tony Muser, Jerry Narron, Jim Riggleman, Sam Perlozzo, Joe Altobelli, Harry Dunlop, Ron Schueler, Dick Pole, Tom Trebelhorn, Pete Mackanin, Joey Cora, Lee Elia, Bob Melvin, John Vukovich, Russ Nixon, Dale Sveum, Bob Geren, Sandy Alomar, Sr., Rene Lachemann, Cookie Rojas, Ron Perranoski, Bill Russell, Ron Roenicke, Kevin Kennedy, Joel Skinner, Deron Johnson, José Cruz, Joe Ferguson, Brad Mills, Bob Schaefer, Ted Simmons, Jay Bell, Pat Corrales, Jim Lett, Sherry Robertson, Chris Speier, Tom Runnells, Joe Pettini, John Wathan, Carlos Tosca, Frank Skaff, Al Pedrique, Tye Waller, Eddie Rodriguez, Jackie Moore, Gary Tuck, Ron Hassey, Johnny Cooney, Bill Haselman, Dave Jauss, Bob Lillis, Mike Ferraro, Andy Etchebarren, Jamie Quirk, Nick Leyva, Dave Martinez, Dave Miley, Robby Thompson, Gary Varsho, Lorenzo Bundy, Chuck Cottier, Grover Resinger, Rob Thomson, Jeff Newman, Denis Menke, Mako Oliveras, Gaylen Pitts, Joe Camacho, Ty Van Burkleo, Wendell Kim, John Tamargo, Ed Romero, Buddy Hancken, Brian Butterfield, Craig Colbert, Glenn Ezell, Glenn Sherlock, Tim Tolman, Doug Davis, Rick Renick, Rich Dauer, Jeff Datz, Chris Bando, Ed Napoleon, Bill Evers, Greg Riddoch, Rob Picciolo, Pat Kelly, Chino Cadahia, Steve Liddle. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 541. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=43088 ... Read more

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“Allen Barra brings a legendary figure from the true golden age of baseball to life.”—Bob CostasYogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history, and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part clown, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest player (fourteen pennants, ten World Series, 3 MVPs) in baseball history. In this revelatory biography, Allen Barra presents Yogi’s remarkable life as never seen before with nearly one hundred photos and countless “Yogi-isms,” and offers hilarious insights into many of baseball’s greatest moments. From calling Don Larsen’s perfect game, to managing the 1973 “You Gotta Believe” New York Mets, Yogi’s life and career are a virtual cutaway view of our national pastime in the twentieth century. 66 photos ... Read more

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Barra cheapens yet another book by being a Yankee homer, and makes BASIC errors
I'm not the first person to make such a complaint, nor is this Barra's first book about which such a complaint has been made.

Let me give you one prime example, from the first set of photo plate pages.

Yogi is in a posed picture at Yankee Stadium with pitchers Vic Raschi, Allie Reynolds and Eddit Lopat.

In the caption, it says, "Only Yogi is in the Hall of Fame."

I infer that Barra is implying the three pitchers deserve serious consideration for the Hall.

And, the answer is, NO THEY DON'T! Not even CLOSE, Mr. Barra!

That, then, leads the skeptical me to ask, was Yogi such a great handler of pitchers as Barra claims?

And, my answer there is, "probably not."

Was he still, probably, an above-average, even good pitchers' catcher? Sure. But, steroids aside, Pudge Rodriguez today is likely better. So were other catchers before and after Yog.

Again, that doesn't diminish the fact that Berra probably does edge out Bench as the greatest catcher of all time. But, we don't need Barra's Yankee homerdom undercutting that argument.

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The errors?

Here's a huge one, from page 121.

Barra notes that Yogi's 1949 World Series check was smaller than in 1947, "the 1949 Series Series being two games shorter."

If he know ANYTHING about how World Series winners and losers pay was determined, he would know this is the wrong answer.

The payout to players is based on the gate from **the first four games only,** period. In 1907, players had asked a question about determining their payout, before the series started, and the series had one tie. Owners made clear after that that the gate was only the first four games, and that games were played toa win, period.

Can't believe Barra flubbed that.

You will not be able to put it down
If you are a baseball fan, you'll love this book.Allen Barra has not only captured the essence of Yogi but has described and documented the entire era when Yogi, Phil, Reynolds, Whitey, Mickey (all of them and many more) made the Yankees a dynasty.You'll read about what really happened, who really said and did what - things you thought you knew about.Of course, Yogi's at the center of all of it.The book is highly detailed and tremendously entertaining all at the same time. Enjoy it - I did.

Yogi Berra on MP3 Format
Actually what I had requested was the audio book on CD not MP3 format through Amazon.Amazon misled the description so I cannot use the book without going through the process of converting the book to the CD format.

Excellent Biography
I bought this for my dad who is 95 years old.He played and still loves baseball.He doesn't normally read books but he is now in assisted living and seemed to be getting bored with life.I gambled and bought him this large print book about one of his favorite baseball players and, to my delight, he is reading this book each day.When I visit dad, he talks about all the new facts he has learned about not just Yogi, but all the other players he remembers so well back then.It also helps that he is 100% Italian and has visited "The Hill" often....eating at his favorite place Cunnetto's.

A Nice Person
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I just read a book. Oh, not a great feat in itself, I read books all the time. It is not a classic in the old tradition but in some ways even more alluring since it is a biography about a classic. A classic American.A human being who, well, defines class.Generally you "had to be there" to get the feel of an incident or you had to have known her or him to be able to appreciate what it is or was about that person that becomes memorable. A name from the past - long past or not too distant past - often whizzes by as unrecognized by those who have come into cognizance later and/or have remained ignorant of the past.

Once I was a baseball fan.I do not follow the game anymore, maybe because of how owners treat fans or how athletes behave on and off the field. Oh, not all players were choir boys even before the days I spent just a few dollars to go and see a game and buy a hot dog and soda.Joe DiMaggio was a prima donna. Willie Mays, one of my all time favorites, wasn't far behind Joltin' Joe when it came to ego and antics.But nowadays, the egos and drooling public make it all, well, distasteful.

Oh yes, the book.Well, I just finished Allen Barra's, "Yogi Berra - The Eternal Yankee." If you are not a sports fan - especially not a baseball one, the book can be tedious at times with many stats and esoteric references on various baseball minutiae. Even though I no longer follow the game, I felt warm and fuzzies all over as I read names and events of my and America's past."I knew that!" or "I remember that!" were thoughts that often emanated from my lips as I read.But, I must admit, not as often as, "I didn't know that." And it came most often when reading about the life of Lawrence Peter Berra or more accurately, about the man known as Yogi.

It is obvious the author is enamored of Yogi but you get the feeling that everyone in baseball and outside of baseball felt the same - even those who did not like him (not many) had to admit he is and always has been a nice person (my words).How many of us will hear that from those who have known us over the years. Simplistic? Yes.But if you stop and think about it, it says a lot.

I have read many biographies and have enjoyed and learned from the experiences.But when I got to the last two paragraphs of Barra's book, tears welled in my eyes. There are very few people who go through life, consistently following an inner beat that humbles or should humble everyone around them. Baseball was his passion - second only to his family.

Barra wrote: "Baseball's most constant constant over the last sixty-some years has been Yogi Berra.Like baseball itself, Yogi has never really been in fashion.Like baseball, he is too popular to be fashionable at all, and his life and achievements transcend fashion, pointing to something indelibly good in the American character. Yogi is more than a living part of our history; he does more than remind us of what once was; he is a symbol of the best of what is and can still be. ..... that's Yogi: Pragmatic, realistic and playful.That, at its best, is America."

If everyone - you, me and our neighbors within 3,000 miles of our home and especially the country's politicians and the pundits that follow them, emulated Yogi just a little, life in these United States would be a whole lot better and our enemies and our friends would tend to take us more seriously. This book is worth a read by anyone who harks back to the time when (they think) life was simpler and wants to read about someone who passed by with a smile and love of his family, baseball and life.

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In The Wit and Wisdom of Yogi Berra, author Phil Pepe takes Yogi from St. Louis to New York's Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium, including all the stops along the way--from the days he put soles on women's shoes to his induction into the Baseball's Hall of Fame, when he coined one of his most remembered phrases:"I thank everybody for making this day necessary."

Phil Pepe explores Yogi Berra as a boy, player, hero, coach, manager, husband, and father, a buffoon and a human being.He relates all of the Berraisms in an absorbing treatment that is simultaneously comical, thoughtful, and biographical.Who can forget what Yogi said about a popular restaurant:"Nobody goes there anymore.It's too crowded."Or Yogi's take on Little League Baseball?"I think it's wonderful.It keeps the kids out of the house." ... Read more

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The Wit and Wisdom of Yogi Berra
Customer service was excellent, and the book was also excellent and in great condition when it arrived.

Based upon the service and quality that I received, I would recommend this vendor, and his/her products, to anyone.

The Wit and Wisdom of Yorgi Berra
If you are a fan of the Zenism of Yogi Berra you will love this book!
Filled with snippets of Yogi's life, with his greatest malaprops.
I actually bought this for a friend, but read it first! ... Read more

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"The most valuable team player in sports" shows you what "teamwork" really means

What does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society that glorifies selfishness and a corporate culture that often uses "team player" as a buzzword but rewards only the showboaters and prima donnas? Well, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching. In this happy and hilarious guide to teamwork, sportsmanship, and winning, Yogi Berra draws on the timeless wisdom handed down by example from ballplayers who came before him to inspire you to make the right choices and become not only a better team player--at sports, at work, and in life--but a better person.

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The Best Book Dealing With Teamwork, Period!
If everyone dealing with sports, professional or kids, were to read this, then perhaps the world of sports wouldn't be in the mess it is today.Yogi Berra deals out something the world has been short on for a long, long time . . . common sense.And it's refreshing to read.His other books are chock full of it, and this one deals in particular with the necessity of teamwork as only Yogi can tell it.And no one knows the importance better than Yogi, who has more World Series rings than anyone and is a D-Day survivor.We need to do more than read his books, we need to learn his lessons.Yogi is a Hall of Famer in baseball, true, but his books prove to us that he is a Hall of Famer in life as well, and a life's model to us all.

entertaining
I enjoyed both the historical journey and the Yogi-isms in this book. Not a lot of meat; but enjoyable.

Light, Enjoyable Read
This will never enter the pantheon of great books, but it is a fun enjoyable read. When growing up in Ireland and before I ever became a humorous keynote business speaker and motivational humorist, I thought the humorous references attributed to Yogi Berra actually related to that well known inhabitant of Jellystone National Park - Yogi Bear. Hey, baseball meant as much to us as cricket means to most US residents.

The subtitle `What I've learned about Teamwork from the Yankees and Life' is the primary rationale for the book. The material is pretty basic, lacking depth, mainly because Berra appears to see the good in everyone or at least is not prepared to rip on too many people. Lessons mentioned in the book include Find your Role, Making Everyone Better, Respect your Team and Not Over Till It's Over. All the lessons are supported by hagiographic examples and references to his almost universally wonderful Yankee team mates.

One of the surprising things about the book is its general lack of humor. My favorite lesson in the book refers to an exchange Yogi had with baseball legend Joe DiMaggio who seeing the author down on himself during a game shouted, "Get running, Yogi, start running. Always run out to your position, it doesn't look good otherwise. Can't get down on yourself. Can't let the other team think they got down on you." One good lesson per book makes a book worthwhile. A pleasant light read.

Not Much Berra Baseball Here.
To like this book, you gotta' really like Yogi Berra a lot...or never heard of him. This is an unusual one. Why would this famed, long-time catcher for the powerhouse New York Yankees, come up with a dime-store-psychologist's book about teams, team practice, team play, teammates, teamwork, "teamness," team ego, team unity? He's played on or managed several major league baseball teams, so nobody disputes he's learned something about it along the way. -But what makes Berra so skilled in "teamwork" beyond all others who could have easily written the same kind of feeble book as this one?

Spot the book's cover, and you see vintage Yogi, all smiley...and holding a (National League yet!) baseball. You quickly figure this book's going to be about Berra's brand of baseball: inside the game, the outside, the players, the stories, what's bad about today's baseball, what's good. But no! He's mostly held his tongue and delivered Baseball Lite.... Now, I don't want to be too hard on him, but Yogi tells us about a myriad of "team" players and managers who, over the years, learned "playing as a team" probably as well as Berra ever did. Was he some kind of standout "teamer"? -Never noticed.

Amid all the "team" clutter, gone are the sharp Berra witticisms, Berra game insight, and his unchecked (sometimes convoluted) commentary that we've come to know and love. -And expect. He settled, instead, for a washed-out book about "team unity." Indeed, the inside skinny on childhood-hero teamwork is not quite what most baseball fans long for.

It's not exactly a sports book, although the setting is clearly baseball. So, it's an easy-reader, but Yogi's overdone it with his mind-numbing, over-use of the word "team" [and all its possible variants!]...along with his never-ending reminders of how wonderful it is to play as a team. Ok already! It's like preaching that rain falls downward -over and over again....

We know! Baseball "teams" win. -Not exactly unheard of. Then maybe this is some kind of motivational business book; but if it is, any veteran company CEO could surely have written a better one. Team this. Team that. Team up. Team down. "Team" is everywhere! In the 1st chapter alone [just 27 small pages], entitled "Team Player," Berra uses the word "team" and its variations 118 times. (!) Who was this book written for? -The fan? Say it ain't so, Yogi....

One bright spot, though, is how the book shakes the mind into images of baseball gone by. Casey, Elston Howard, Bobby Murcer, Phil Rizutto, Mickey and Roger, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Grimm, Gene Mauch, Gil McDougald, Gil Hodges, Bobby Bonds, Clete Boyer, Don Larsen, ... just a handful of the dozens and dozens of big-name, former players and managersmentioned throughout the book. Only Berra does none of these guys or their stories justice, as he recounts lean anecdotes about each of them (and their "teamplay," of course!) in all-too-brief one, two, or at most, three-lines of memories.

-An easy, friendly, non-compelling read that's wide of the plate. -as told to Dave Kaplan? ...for Mr. Berra didn't pen much of this smoothly-written, non-baseball baseball book all by himself. Even the title borders on a counterfeit Yogi-ism, surely thought up by someone else. All in all, his writing "team" should have instead come up with "Yogi Berra's Real Book about Major League Baseball," a classic even CEOs would like.

Yogi again surprise with his insight and real wisdom
This book is a little different.It is not filled with Yogi quotes like in the book "I Never said half the things I said" but it does have his typical humor.It is a great book for a Yankee fan like me who followed and watched the great Yankee teams of the 50s and 60s that Yogi played on.The theme of the book is that too many modern players are selfish and that no matter how great an individual player might be it takes team work and unselfishness by the whole team to make a champion.Yogi describes this in players like Mantle, Ford, Reynolds and DiMaggio from his era but he also sees it in guys like Paul O'Neill and Scott Brosius from the 1998 Yankees, perhaps the best baseball team ever!I wasn't expecting it but Yogi also saw it in the 2004 Red Sox and pointed to an unselfish act by Tim Wakefield that he thought was the key to their comeback against the Yankees.It was not something that many fans or broadcasters would have noticed but Terry Francona and his Red Sox teammates did. ... Read more

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Could Confucius hit a curveball?
Could Yoda block the plate?
Can the Dalai Lama dig one out of the dirt?

No, there is only one Zen master who could contemplate the circle of life while rounding the bases.

Who is this guru lurking in the grand old game? Well, he's the winner of ten World Series rings, a member of both the Hall of Fame and the All-Century Team, and perhaps the most popular and beloved ballplayer of all time. And without effort or artifice he's waxed poetic on the mysteries of time ("It gets late awful early out there"), the meaning of community ("It's so crowded nobody goes there anymore"), and even the omnipresence of hope in the direst circumstances ("It ain't over 'til it's over").

It's Yogi Berra, of course, and in What Time Is It? You Mean Now? Yogi expounds on the funny, warm, borderline inadvertent insights that are his trademark. Twenty-six chapters, one for each letter, examine the words, the meaning, and the uplifting example of a kid from St. Louis who grew up to become the consummate Yankee and the ultimate Yogi.

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What time is it? You Mean Now?
What Time is It? You Mean Now?Reads like it was writen by a 10th grader. All I got from it was the list of Yogi Berra's"Quotes". Easier to just print them of the internet.

Baseball philosophising
In the baseball world, you're either a Yankee fan, or not. I'm not. Never have been. But still there have certainly been Yankee players that I have admired (and a few I have loathed), but I honsetly don't see how anyone could not like Yogi Berra. He represents all that is (or was) good with the game.

WHAT TIME IS IT? YOU MEAN NOW?, by Yogi Berra gives us a good look into the consummate baseball philosophiser's humor, logic and basic outlook on life with the ever present baseball metaphor. In typical Yogi fashion, some of what he says makes no sense whatsoever, while at the same time, makes perfect sense. You just have to see it from his viewpoint and he does a great job of conveying that to the reader.

This is a fun read with 26 little 3 or 4 page chapters. You won't find any life changing lessons here, but you will page after page of just plain old common sense as only Yogi could express it.

a series of 26 little stories ordered from a-z
This book is like many of Yogi's books.It goes into his childhood, his upbringing and his values.In a short space the little stories tell a lot.Often the players of today are compared with those from Yogi's era or those from his childhood.Aside from talent the key to success as a baseball player and maybe in life too is modesty, unselfishness and the willingness to help others.Yogi exhibits all these qualities.

Special Read
I began this book with some trepidation as Yogi has always been looked upon as somewhat of a clown. Someone to be enjoyed, yet not one to be taken too seriously. This book proved my expectations to be far from the truth. Although he is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and utilizes the sport as a metaphor to represent life, it goes into various aspects of Sports and shows how they are applicable in daily life. He writes about issues such as ones attitude, charisma as well as the ability to work together as a team. Much of what is written in this little "gem" of a book is applicable to the business setting and appears to come out of Business 101. When he writes about the effect of Parents upon Children, this hits Home and this is a superbly done book.

"Just let them go out and play and have fun."

This little book is a great read and full of down to earth ideas that will be usefulto the readers in their everyday lives.We have all heard of the one-liners attributed to Yogi.Even if you are still up in the air whether he actually said all these things;you'll really see the thoughts behind these statements.
It's hard to believe that there was ever any other Baseball player who had more love for the game,and that was from the days when he and Joe Garagolia played pick-up ball as kids in St.Louis,all the way through the major leagues,and now in his retirement years.Not only that,you'll see from this book that nobody appreciated more the privilege he had to make a wonderful life and living "playing a kids game".
Yogi tells us the things that helped him through life and he explains the principles as well as any professionally trained person could do.
Most of all,he doesn't preach. he just tells us what has worked for him and should work for anyone ,through his years of observing life.In his own words,he sums it all up with:
"You can observe a lot by watching."
Thanks,Yogi,for all the enjoyment and fun you have given so many of over the years;and also for putting your thoughts in this terrific little book. ... Read more

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The three-time MVP who appeared in a record seventy-five World Series games tells readers about himself and his colleagues during his roller-coaster times in major league baseball. Reprint. ... Read more

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Yogi Berra book
Bought for a gift for a friend of mine.It is just what he wanted.

yogi-kcs
Have you ever wondered how it would be like to be living a life like a famous baseball player?The title of this book is Yogi: It Ain't Over by Yogi Berra and Tom Horton.This book is about Yogi Berra's life and what happened during his baseball career.

The main character is Yogi Berra.This book mainly takes place in New York.It takes place in New York because that is where Yogi spent most of his time as a baseball player.

Yogi: It Ain't Over is about one of the greatest baseball players in Major Legue Baseball.Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra was a catcher from the New York Yankees and he was a good catcher.Being a good catcher didn't allow him to be a good baseball player, he also could hit.He also was elected American League (AL) MVP three times, in 1951, 1954, and 1955.He was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1972.After he was dismissed by the Yankees he became the manager of the Yankees, then the Mets, and back to the Yankees.Before all of that happened he joined the navy and fought in World War II.The whole title of the book is Yogi: It Ain't Over Till It's Over.Yogi has a wife named Carmen and three sons: Dale, Larry, and Timmy.

This book is a good book.This book inspired me to play my best in baseball because Yogi Berra played in the MLB and was an 8th grade dropout.I'm not saying I want to be a high school dropout and try for the majors.I'm saying that I want to try to make it into the AAA division in the minor leagues or even better the major league and I only started to play baseball in 6th grade.I would recommend this book to people that would like to know about old baseball players and to people that like sports and auto-biographies.
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"It's déjà vu all over again"—only better. The Yogi Book, the New York Times bestseller, now has a fresh new design throughout, new photographs, a career timeline, and all-new appreciations by some of his greatest fans, including Billy Crystal. And it's timed to coincide with the 85th birthday of this American legend who's more beloved than ever.

As for the quotes, well, Yogi Berra's gift for saying the smartest things in the funniest, most memorable ways has made him a legend. Or, as The New Yorker put it, "Hardly anybody would quarrel that . . . Winston Churchill has been replaced by Yogi Berra as the favorite source of quotations." The Yogi Book brings all of his famous quotes together in one place—and even better, gives the story behind them. "It ain't over 'til it's over."—that’s Yogi's answer to a reporter when he was managing the Mets in July 1973, and they were nine games out of first place (not only quotable, but prophetic—they won the pennant). "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."—Yogi's comment to Stan Musial and Joe Garagiola about Ruggieri's Restaurant in St. Louis 1959. "It gets late early out there."—Yogi describing how shadows crept across Yankee Stadium's left field during late autumn afternoons.


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If the subtitle of this delicious collection of Yogi-isms hasyou scratching your head, it has done its job as stunningly as Berraused to do his behind the plate at Yankee Stadium. The Hall of FameMVP catcher for the pinstriped dynasties of the late 1940s through the'50s and into the '60s, Berra was about as quick with his witticismsas he was with his bat and glove. But if his observations hit theheart of the plate, his grammar tended to pop out of left field, hencethe creation of a unique mode of malapropism dubbed the Yogi-ism.Totruly understand the title, you need to know that not every motascribed to Yogi actually emanated from his mouth--they only soundedlike they should have. Thus, he really didn't say everything hesaid, which makes The Yogi Book absolutely necessary (see page10).

To the things that Yogi did say, The Yogi Book does bothservice and justice. It gathers the witticisms in a single convenientvolume, adds a scrapbook of photos, then lets their progenitor riff,filling in color commentary on what was happening beyond his mind andwhat was going through it when the famous phrases were dispatched intothe public domain.He deservedly takes credit for such immortalpronunciamentos as "Nobody goes there anymore. It's toocrowded." (page 16); "It's deja vu all over again."(page 30); "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."(page 48); "The future ain't what it used to be." (page118); "It gets late early out there." (page 64); and"Ninety percent of this game is half mental." (page69). All, like the sacred texts they happen to be, are appropriatelyparsed for your edification, as is the greatest Yogi-ism of them all:"It ain't over 'til it's over." (page 121). ... Read more

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Enjoyable book
Yogi Berra was an excellent baseball player.I found his book most interesting.The guy has a way with words.I would read it again. You don't have to be a baseball fan to read this book as Yogi's saying's fit everyday life.

What's not to like - dugout wisdom combined with some great insight
"The Yogi Book" is a short book but worth your time to read. Yogi explains the origin of his famous timeless expressions and includes lots of fun pictures to boot. It won't take you long to read but you'll read it more than once.

The Yogi Book:"I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said"

I received this product in a very timely manner and in great condition.I had a wonderful time chuckling as I read it.

I didn't read the book that I read
A very fun book and it made a great gift.It made a Yogi fan out of me.

Yogi-isms
This is a great little book to leave in the bathroom for a few laughs from the inimitable Yogi.
Lots of good pics and a little insight to the circumstances in which he uttered many of those now infamous "quotes" ... Read more

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Roger Bresnahan is the same kind of a man. He thinks quickly, and is a brilliant player, but he never dodges anything. He is often hurt as a result. Once, when he was with the Giants, he was hit in the face with a pitched ball, and McGraw worried while he was laid up, for fear that it would make him bat shy. After he came back, he was just as friendly with the plate as ever. The injury of men like Chance and Bresnahan, whose services are of such vital importance to the "inside" play of a team, destroys the effectiveness of the club. ... Read more

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In more than a century of baseball history, there is only one player who has won the most championship rings -- Yogi Berra. He has ten of them, in fact. One for each and every finger.

Yankees fans and serious baseball scholars may be frustrated by Berra's lack of interest in overturning the myths that surround him. Berra confesses that many of the malapropisms associated with him were actually fabricated by reporters, but he does not name names. And the Georges (Weiss and Steinbrenner)--who caused Berra so much grief during his career as a player and manager--are lightly forgiven. Despite the lack of major revelations Ten Rings offers a pleasant refresher course in, arguably, the greatest string of baseball seasons in history. --Patrick O’Kelley ... Read more

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Yogi's the Greatest
This is great book to read if you love the pre-Steinbrenner Yankees of Mantle, Berra, and Ford.Yogi
gives a simple (what else would you expect?) description of the glory days of baseball before big money. I loved the book! If you are a Yankee fan you can't afford not to read this one.Spend the money and sit back and
let Yogi tell you what it was like to be young and a Yankee!

ENJOYABLE BOOK FROM A YANKEE LEGEND
YOGI BERRA DOES A FIND JOB IN REHASHING EACH OF HIS 10 WORLD SERIES VICTORIES. HE GIVES US A LOOK AT HOW THE SEASON WENT, ADDITION OR SUBTRACTION OF KEY PLAYERS, AND SOME DETAILED HIGHLIGHTS OF THAT PARTICULAR SEASON. I ENJOYED HIS HUMOR AND HONESTY CONCERNING HIMSELF AND MANY TEAMATES. THE ONLY THING I WANTED WAS MORE DETAIL ON THE EVENTS HE COVERS. ALL IN ALL THIS IS A VERY EASY BOOK TO READ AND IS VERY ENTERTAINING. FOR ALL YANKEE FANS.

Only one has ten
If you are a sports fan, baseball fan, Yankees fan, or a Yogi fan this book won't disappoint. The book chronicles the tough, unlikely hero over his career in his words. In many ways Yogi was the bridge between the "old" Yankees (Di Maggio, etc.) and the Mantle / Maris Yankees and beyond. Great book! Fun read!

Yogi Berra tells the story behind each of his "Ten Rings"
I feel that I can make the claim that Yogi Berra is the most beloved living baseball player, without the same sort of argument I would get if I happened to be making a claim about the greatest living baseball player (Mays or Bonds or Aaron?) or the most admired living baseball player (Musical or Ryan or Aaron?).But who else brings a big smile to your face when you see him still doing commercials on television almost four decades after he retired from playing baseball?

"Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons" was written by Yogi with Dave Kaplan, a former newspaper reporter who is currently the director of the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, and you have the sense that Yogi was looking at his scrap books and press clippings talking about what he remembers from each of the ten seasons in which he and the Yankees won the World Series.Yogi also comments on the four years the Yankees lost the Fall Classic and the three years they did not even win the American League pennant, but the focus is mainly on what those ten seasons that ended with him receiving one of his "Ten Rings."

I have read most of the books by and about Yogi since I was given a copy of Joe Trumbell's biography in the mid-1960s, and I was rather surprised by how many new stories Yogi came up with for this trip down memory lane.Especially interesting "Ten Rings" are what he has to say about Casey Stengle during the 1949-53 seasons when the Yankees became the first team to win five World Series in a row, and his thoughts about the Brooklyn Dodgers during all their classic confrontations in the 1950s.He also provides some nice details on the end of Allie Reynolds's second no-hitter in 1951.Some readers might be dismayed that Berra has little bad to say about his teammates and opponents, although I think it is clear he felt about Yankee GM George Weiss the way many feel about the team's owner George Steinbrenner today, but clearly Yogi is long past holding grudges.He talks about some of the abuse heaped on him in the early days of his major league career and speaks modestly about his own impressive career accomplishments.

If you read between the lines the key thing you will pick up is the sense of teamwork and professionalism that existed on the Yankees during the Berra years.This book will be of some value to baseball historians in that it contains Yogi's thoughts on the key players in each championship season as well as some interesting anecdotes that show a different side of the Yankees.For example, Mickey Mantle thought calling pitches was not that hard so Yogi lets him do it during a game Whitey Ford is pitching.Then there is rookie Gil McDougald making a point to veteran pitcher Allie Reynolds.So there are a few choice tales in this rather brief book.

In the fifth grade there were three of us with the same first name and since I had a catcher's mitt, I spent a year as Yogi.It did not matter that Yogi had already retired and that I had never seen him play.I liked New York as a city and the Yankees in the Civil War, so becoming a New York Yankees fan seemed like a good idea.The fact that they had a catcher with basically the same first name and a last name starting with the same three letters as my own, was too obvious to ignore.Since then I have become much more impressed by what Berra did on the field, much more than the celebrated Yogi-isms (although I love the way the best of those make perfect sense if you pay attention to what is meant rather than what is being said).Clearly I am at the point where I will read anything Yogi happens to write, and while we are not talking classic baseball books, you are not going to be disappointed by "Ten Rings" or any of his other volumes.

Final Notes: Yes, the page numbers are superimposed on a miniature image of Yogi's ring for that particular championship season.Also, I find it somewhat ironic that the cover is done in a layout rather reminiscent of the 1965 Topps baseball cards, which was the first year in which Yogi was pictured as a player-coach for the New York Mets.The back of "Ten Rings" has an Appendix listing Yogi Berra's World Series Career Records along with his season and post-season batting stats along with line scores for all of the World Series games for those ten championship seasons.

breezy fun
This light reminiscence of Yogi's ten championship seasons is a quick, pleasant read.Like a fleshed out magazine article, perhaps, it touches on a bit of history, a few sketches of famous teammates, and a recounting of the high spots of this charming hall of famer's career. A good choice for the younger fan with no memory of the game as it was in a simpler time. ... Read more

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Follow two young Yankees fans around Yankee Stadium during game day. Read along as the young Yankees watch batting practice, take a trip to Monument Park, and run into all-time Yankees Great, Yogi Berra. ... Read more

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"Yogi Berra: An American Original" recalls the legendary life and times of one of America’s most enduring personalities. Drawn from the archives of the "New York Daily News," this book represents the most complete collection of Yogi Berra materials ever published. With over 150 classic photographs, Yogi’s Hall of Fame career is captured in beautiful detail—including rarely seen pictures from his early years in Yankee pinstripes to his World Series heroics on the great Yankee teams of the 1950s and early 1960s, through his ups and downs as manager and coach of the tradition-rich Yankees and the upstart Mets, and concluding with his life after baseball. ... Read more

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For nearly ten years, Marty Appel was part of the New York Yankees’ public relations team, serving as its director from 1974 to 1977. In this book he paints intimate portraits — by turns hilarious and poignant — of the superstars and the benchwarmers of that era, both on and off the field. The lineup of colorful characters includes tempestuous owner George Steinbrenner, managers Casey Stengel and Billy Martin, and future Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, and Reggie Jackson. Appel’s job was to keep the Yankees in the news. And given the team’s high profile, that task was rarely difficult, sometimes disastrous, and often gratifying. ... Read more

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LOVEDTHE BOOK
I could not put the book down.....fast reading and great stories and lots of humor.....one heck of a story teller....

A smart, sensitive memoir
Marty Appel served in the Bronx Bombers' public-relations office for nearly nine years, and was the PR director during the tumultuous early George Steinbrenner years (from 1974 to 1977). Appel's "Now Pitching For the Yankees" recalls the turmoil of that period -- and Appel's ability to function under pressure --with wit, a keen eye for detail and sensitivity.

None of the long hours Appel spent at the ballpark, the turmoil he witnessed, or the high-pressure tactics of owner Steinbrenner have dimmed his appreciation for his colleagues and bosses. It comes through in the pages of this warm, often touching memoir.

The boldface names are there -- including Steinbrenner, Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Joe DiMaggio and Reggie Jackson -- along with less-famous but pivotal Yankee characters like clubhouse man Pete Sheehy, team execs Michael Burke and Gabe Paul, and Appel's mentor in public relations, Bob Fishel. (It even mentions the writers: Appel's anecdote about one scribe's losing battle with bladder control in Boston is priceless.)

Appel also reflects on his vibrant post-Yankees career, including a bittersweet period with the Atlanta Olympics and a still-thriving stint as a baseball author (subjects include early baseball star King Kelly, former Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and former Yankee captain Thurman Munson).

"Now Pitching for the Yankees" is a good find for anyone who loves baseball, cherishes its history and appreciates the people behind the scenes who make it happen.

The Other Side of the '70s Yankees
Only if you really know your New York sports would you realize that Marty Appel's in a much more unique position to write a tell-all book about the 1970s Yankees than many other athletes.During his progression over 10 years from Yankees' fan-mail gopher during the Horace Clarke years, to PR director during the 1976 World Series, Appel had once-in-a-lifetime encounters (with the likes of Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Mike Burke, Gabe Paul, George Steinbrenner and ... Oscar Gamble) every single day.

"Now Pitching...", finally out in paperback, shows Appel's origins as a Yankees fan when everyone else was rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and how he turned his love for the game into a career (when everyone else was watching the NFL).Most of the book covers the Yankees from 1968 to 1976, Appel's reign.Although many of the stories are familiar to baseball readers from what seems like 100 other books, only Appel is giving you the inside view.Nowhere else will you get such insider detail about Oscar Gamble's infamous haircut, Sparky Lyle's theme music, or George Steinbrenner's management style.

The book flags a little -- only a little -- when Appel leaves the Yankees and makes his mark in other ventures, such as team tennis and local NYC broadcasting.The most interesting part focusses on Appel's brief fish-out-of-water turn with the 1996 Atlanta Olympics organizers.

Marty Appel's been a very lucky guy -- who else gets to be friends with both Mickey Mantle and Billie Jean King?"Now Pitching for the Yankees" is several cuts above your standard baseball autobiography.

Baseball needs Marty Appel
As a Red Sox fan, I was ready to read this and get whacked in the face with the hubris usually shown by anything Yankee. I was surprised by the balance shown. Marty Appel knows more about baseball than a lot of people running the game now. He was born about 30 years too late as people like Epsteil, Beane and Riccardi get to run ballclubs, while Mr. Appel 30 years ago had to come up through the ranks with Steinbrenner's Yankees no less. Mr. Appel also wrote an excellent biography on one of the first superstarts of baseball back in the 1800's--King Kelly. I recommend both books highly.

From Big Bad Baseball Website
Posted 5:49 p.m., December 12, 2001 - Bruce M.
If I may add another book to the list. The best baseball book that I've read this calendar year is Marty Appel's Now Pitching for the Yankees. Marty worked in the Yankees' public relations department from 1968 to 1977, and shares loads of funny and insightful stories about the CBS Yankees and the Yankees of the Steinbrenner Era. The book is well-written, flows smoothly, and strikes me as honest without "hatcheting" people in and around baseball. I'd recommend the book to both Yankee and non-Yankee fans. ... Read more