Yogi Berra - Academy of Achievement

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One of the greatest catchers and clutch hitters in the history of baseball, he was the anchor of the great New York Yankees dynasty from the late 1940s to early '60s. Berra played on more pennant-winning teams (14), and on more World Series winners (10) than any player in the history of the game. A 15-time All Star, he was named Most Valuable Player in the American League three times, an unsurpassed accomplishment. He also set numerous records for catchers, including 148 consecutive games without an error. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972 and is a member of Major League Baseball's All-Century Team. As a manager, he won pennants for both the Yankees in 1964 and the Mets in 1973. His trademark "Yogi-isms," such as "It ain't over 'til it's over" and "It's déjà vu all over again," have become part of the American vernacular. No other sports figure has as many entries in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. After retiring from baseball he selflessly devoted himself to charitable causes, raising over $1 million for scholarships, educational programming and special-needs scouts through his annual golf tournament."/> <link rel="canonical" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/yogi-berra/"/> <meta property="og:locale" content="en_US"/> <meta property="og:type" content="article"/> <meta property="og:title" content="Yogi Berra - Academy of Achievement"/> <meta property="og:description" content="<p class="inputTextFirst">There is no more beloved figure in the history of America's national pastime than Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra. One of the greatest catchers and clutch hitters in the history of baseball, he was the anchor of the great New York Yankees dynasty from the late 1940s to early '60s.</p> <p class="inputText">Berra played on more pennant-winning teams (14), and on more World Series winners (10) than any player in the history of the game. A 15-time All Star, he was named Most Valuable Player in the American League three times, an unsurpassed accomplishment. He also set numerous records for catchers, including 148 consecutive games without an error. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972 and is a member of Major League Baseball's All-Century Team. As a manager, he won pennants for both the Yankees in 1964 and the Mets in 1973.</p> <p class="inputText">His trademark "Yogi-isms," such as "It ain't over 'til it's over" and "It's déjà vu all over again," have become part of the American vernacular. No other sports figure has as many entries in <i>Bartlett's Familiar Quotations</i>. After retiring from baseball he selflessly devoted himself to charitable causes, raising over $1 million for scholarships, educational programming and special-needs scouts through his annual golf tournament.</p>"/> <meta property="og:url" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/yogi-berra/"/> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Academy of Achievement"/> <meta property="og:image" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/berra-2-2005summit-Feature-Image-2800x1120.jpg"/> <meta property="og:image:width" content="2800"/> <meta property="og:image:height" content="1120"/> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary"/> <meta name="twitter:description" content="<p class="inputTextFirst">There is no more beloved figure in the history of America's national pastime than Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra. One of the greatest catchers and clutch hitters in the history of baseball, he was the anchor of the great New York Yankees dynasty from the late 1940s to early '60s.</p> <p class="inputText">Berra played on more pennant-winning teams (14), and on more World Series winners (10) than any player in the history of the game. A 15-time All Star, he was named Most Valuable Player in the American League three times, an unsurpassed accomplishment. He also set numerous records for catchers, including 148 consecutive games without an error. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972 and is a member of Major League Baseball's All-Century Team. As a manager, he won pennants for both the Yankees in 1964 and the Mets in 1973.</p> <p class="inputText">His trademark "Yogi-isms," such as "It ain't over 'til it's over" and "It's déjà vu all over again," have become part of the American vernacular. No other sports figure has as many entries in <i>Bartlett's Familiar Quotations</i>. 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col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 text-xs-center"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> <h3 class="serif-3 quote-marks">If I had to come back to life again, I'd like to be a ballplayer.</h3> </header> </div> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar clearfix"> <h2 class="serif-3 p-b-1">Philosopher of the Diamond</h2> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> May 12, 1925 </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Death</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> September 22, 2015 </dd> </div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p class="inputTextFirst">Lawrence Peter Berra was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His parents and two older brothers were born in Italy. His father worked in a brickyard and had little use for sports and games, but the Berra brothers, like their neighbors in the district known as the Hill, were soon captivated by American baseball and spent every day they could in the neighborhood sandlot. By age 14, Berra was playing in a youth league sponsored by the American Legion. His teammates gave him the nickname he was to make famous.</p> <figure id="attachment_12997" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-12997 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-017-berra-GettyImages-515208618_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-12997 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="2915" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-017-berra-GettyImages-515208618_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-017-berra-GettyImages-515208618_master-297x380.jpg 297w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-017-berra-GettyImages-515208618_master-594x760.jpg 594w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-017-berra-GettyImages-515208618_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">June 1948: Berra shakes hands with Yankee legend Babe Ruth on Babe Ruth Day at Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis.</figcaption></figure><p class="inputText">The manager of his team saw professional potential in Berra, and drew him to the attention of Branch Rickey, then the general manager of the St Louis Cardinals. Rickey was more impressed with Berra’s teammate, Joe Garagiola, and offered Garagiola $500 a week to sign with the Cardinals. He offered Berra half the sum, and reportedly observed that Berra would never be more than a Triple A player, not good enough for the major leagues. Berra refused to take less than Rickey was offering Garagiola, and turned him down. Shortly thereafter, Rickey moved from the Cardinals to the Brooklyn Dodgers and finally offered Berra the $500 a week he had insisted on, but by then Berra had accepted an equivalent offer from the New York Yankees. Berra would remain associated with the Yankees for most of his career. At first he was assigned to the Norfolk Tars farm team, in the Class B Piedmont league. The 17-year-old Berra immediately showed signs of his talent as a hitter by driving in 23 runs in a single game.</p> <figure id="attachment_2855" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-2855 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-005.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-2855 size-full lazyload" alt="The four Yankees picked for the American League team in the 1950 All-Star game: Phil Rizzuto, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, and Gerry Coleman. July 8, 1950. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" width="2280" height="1835" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-005.jpg 2280w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-005-380x306.jpg 380w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-005-760x612.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-005.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">July 8, 1950: The four Yankees picked for the American League team in the 1950 All-Star game: Phil Rizzuto, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, and Gerry Coleman. Yogi Berra was an 18-time American League All-Star during his career.</figcaption></figure><p class="inputText">Before Berra could make good on his promise, he came of age for military service. With World War II raging, Berra volunteered for the United States Navy. He served in North Africa and Europe, participating in the D-Day landing in Normandy. He continued to play baseball in the Navy after his reassignment to the United States. Not long after his discharge from the military, Berra was assigned to the Yankees’ New London, Connecticut club. There, Mel Ott, General Manager of the New York Giants, offered the Yankees $50,000 for Berra’s contract. The Yankees’ General Manager, Douglas McPhail, immediately took a closer look at Berra and moved him to the Newark Bears of the International League in 1946. That autumn, he was promoted to the major league New York Yankees. Berra was to play with the Yankees for the next 17 seasons.</p> <table border="0" align="right"><tbody><tr><td></td> </tr></tbody></table><figure id="attachment_12999" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-12999 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-019-berra-GettyImages-515457360_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-12999 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1833" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-019-berra-GettyImages-515457360_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-019-berra-GettyImages-515457360_master-380x306.jpg 380w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-019-berra-GettyImages-515457360_master-760x611.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-019-berra-GettyImages-515457360_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">September 14, 1953: Yankee catcher Yogi Berra is the center of this scene of joy and jubilation after the New York Yankees clinched their record-breaking fifth straight pennant. Berra’s two-run homer in the seventh inning broke a 5-5 tie and gave the Yankees their 20th flag in an 8-5 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Unseen, but not forgotten, is Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, who is buried beneath the pile of Yankees – that’s his leg under Yogi. Yankee co-owners Dan Topping (left) and Del Webb (right) join in the victory horseplay. The win sent the Yankees into the World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers, with the Yankees seeking their fifth world title in a row. (Photo: Getty)</figcaption></figure><p>The Yankees made Berra a catcher, a position he had seldom played before. He found the transition to a new position difficult at first, but in time he would become the most celebrated catcher of the era. He made a more immediate impression as a hitter. In 1947, he set the first of his many World Series records, as the first pinch hitter to score a home run in World Series play. He soon became famous for swinging at seemingly impossible pitches. “If I can see it, I can hit it,” he explained. Pitchers found him almost impossible to strike out. In the 1950 season, he only struck out 12 times in 597 times at bat.</p> <figure id="attachment_45042" style="width: 3531px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-45042 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-GettyImages-81474560.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-45042 lazyload" alt="" width="3531" height="2308" data-sizes="(max-width: 3531px) 100vw, 3531px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-GettyImages-81474560.jpg 3531w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-GettyImages-81474560-380x248.jpg 380w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-GettyImages-81474560-760x497.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-GettyImages-81474560.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1955: Yogi Berra making a throw versus the Cleveland Indians in Ohio. (Hy Peskin/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure> <p class="inputText">Berra’s ebullient personality made him a favorite of fans and sportswriters, who delighted in his trademark aphorisms, the so-called Yogi-isms that made him the most-quoted athlete in history. “It ain’t over ’til it’s over,” “It’s déjà vu all over again,” and “You can observe a lot just by watching,” may sound like artless redundancies at first hearing, but they encapsulate attitudes of optimism and common sense that Americans admire in their heroes and strive for in themselves.</p> <figure id="attachment_2851" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-2851 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-002.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-2851 lazyload" alt="Berra was a dominant hitter throughout the 1950s. Here he is in action in May 1956. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" width="2280" height="1771" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-002.jpg 2280w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-002-380x295.jpg 380w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-002-760x590.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-002.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Yogi Berra was a dominant hitter during the 1950s. Here he is in action in May 1956 against the Cleveland Indians.</figcaption></figure><p class="inputText">While Berra was on the team, the New York Yankees won 14 American League championships, and triumphed ten times in the World Series, unequaled records for a player in either major league. He holds World Series records for most games played by a catcher, most times at-bat, most hits, and most doubles. Only two players in the history of the game have scored more home runs in World Series play. Among other records as a catcher in the regular season, he played 148 consecutive games without an error. Berra played in 15 All-Star games, and was named Most Valuable Player in the American League in 1951, 1954 and 1955.</p> <figure id="attachment_12998" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-12998 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-018-berra-GettyImages-515350562_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-12998 size-full lazyload" alt="(Original Caption) 9/19/1959-New York, NY: Yogi Berra is shown here at Yankee Stadium with his sons, Lawrence and Timmy, his wife, Carmen and her father, Pietro." width="2280" height="2166" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-018-berra-GettyImages-515350562_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-018-berra-GettyImages-515350562_master-380x361.jpg 380w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-018-berra-GettyImages-515350562_master-760x722.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-018-berra-GettyImages-515350562_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Yogi Berra is shown here at Yankee Stadium with his sons, Lawrence and Timmy, his wife, Carmen, and her father, Pietro, on September 19, 1959. Yogi and his wife Carmen were married for 65 years until her death in 2014. (Getty)</figcaption></figure><p>Berra played his last season as a Yankee in 1962. He became the Yankees’ manager in 1964, leading the team to victory in the American League pennant race that year, but losing to the Cardinals in a seven-game World Series. Berra was dismissed, and for the first time in his major league career was no longer a New York Yankee. He remained in New York, however, signing on as a player-coach with the New York Mets in 1965, under his longtime friend and mentor, Casey Stengel. That season, Berra took to the field as a player for the last time, but he remained with the Mets’ coaching staff throughout the decade.</p> <figure id="attachment_2852" style="width: 1760px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-2852 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-2852 size-full lazyload" alt="New York Yankees' Derek Jeter laughs with Yankee legend Yogi Berra while warming up before a season-opener game at the Tokyo Dome in Japan, March 27, 2004. (© ISSEI KATO/Reuters/Corbis)" width="1760" height="2200" data-sizes="(max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003.jpg 1760w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003-304x380.jpg 304w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003-608x760.jpg 608w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">New York Yankees’ Derek Jeter laughs with Yankee legend Yogi Berra while warming up before a season-opener game at the Tokyo Dome in Japan during March 2004. Yogi Berra was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.</figcaption></figure> <p>Berra became the manager of the Mets in 1972, the same year he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. In the last month of the 1973 season, Berra led the Mets from last place to win a National League championship. He is one of the only managers in history to have won pennants in both the National and American Leagues. Yogi Berra returned to the Yankees as a coach in 1976, and managed the team during the 1984 and 1985 seasons. He then coached the Houston Astros from 1986 until his retirement in 1992.</p> <figure id="attachment_47013" style="width: 1422px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-47013 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WP-Academy2005_0027.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-47013 lazyload" alt="" width="1422" height="1024" data-sizes="(max-width: 1422px) 100vw, 1422px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WP-Academy2005_0027.jpg 1422w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WP-Academy2005_0027-380x274.jpg 380w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WP-Academy2005_0027-760x547.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WP-Academy2005_0027.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Yogi Berra with fellow members of the Class of 2005, NBC’S <em>Today Show</em> co-anchor Katie Couric and MIT President Dr. Susan Hockfield, with Summit Host Catherine B. Reynolds and Academy members President Bill Clinton and track and field legend Sir Roger Bannister at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the 2005 Summit in New York.</figcaption></figure><p class="inputText">In 1998, the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center opened its doors at Monclair State University in New Jersey. In the words of its mission statement, the museum was founded “…to preserve and promote the values of respect, sportsmanship, social justice and excellence.” These are qualities Yogi Berra exemplified throughout his career. The Yogi Berra Museum ensures that future generations will be inspired by the talent and determination of a legendary athlete, and the warmth and wisdom of an American hero.  <span class="s1">In 2015, shortly after his death at the age of 90, Yogi Berra was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.</span></p></body></html> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="profile" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <header class="editorial-article__header"> <figure class="text-xs-center"> <img class="inductee-badge" src="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/themes/aoa/assets/images/inducted-badge@2x.png" alt="Inducted Badge" width="120" height="120"/> <figcaption class="serif-3 text-brand-primary"> Inducted in 2005 </figcaption> </figure> </header> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <dl class="clearfix m-b-0"> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Career</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> <div><a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.baseball-player">Baseball Player</a></div> </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> May 12, 1925 </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Death</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> September 22, 2015 </dd> </div> </dl> </aside> <article class="col-md-8 editorial-article clearfix"> <p class="inputTextFirst">There is no more beloved figure in the history of America’s national pastime than Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra. One of the greatest catchers and clutch hitters in the history of baseball, he was the anchor of the great New York Yankees dynasty from the late 1940s to early ’60s.</p> <p class="inputText">Berra played on more pennant-winning teams (14), and on more World Series winners (10) than any player in the history of the game. A 15-time All Star, he was named Most Valuable Player in the American League three times, an unsurpassed accomplishment. He also set numerous records for catchers, including 148 consecutive games without an error. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972 and is a member of Major League Baseball’s All-Century Team. As a manager, he won pennants for both the Yankees in 1964 and the Mets in 1973.</p> <p class="inputText">His trademark “Yogi-isms,” such as “It ain’t over ’til it’s over” and “It’s déjà vu all over again,” have become part of the American vernacular. No other sports figure has as many entries in <i>Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations</i>. After retiring from baseball he selflessly devoted himself to charitable causes, raising over $1 million for scholarships, educational programming and special-needs scouts through his annual golf tournament.</p> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="interview" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <div class="col-md-12 interview-feature-video"> <figure> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/rCqrvLBQxwo?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=1395&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_17_51_00.Still008-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_17_51_00.Still008-760x428.jpg"></div> <div class="video-tag sans-4"> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> <div class="video-tag__text">Watch full interview</div> </div> </div> </figure> </div> <header class="col-md-12 text-xs-center m-b-2"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> </header> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <h2 class="serif-3 achiever--biography-subtitle">Philosopher of the Diamond</h2> <div class="sans-2">New York City</div> <div class="sans-2">June 1, 2005</div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8">   <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>What was it like growing up on the Hill in St. Louis when you were a kid?</b></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Yogi Berra: Well, it was very nice. In fact…</span></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/qrpbxr599UI?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=31&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_00_33_15.Still005-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_00_33_15.Still005-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/passion/">Passion</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">We played ball all the time. I played every sport there was in St. Louis. Not basketball, I was too short. I played a lot of soccer. I played football. I played softball. And, we had a game called “cartball.” Did you ever play with bottle caps? We played with bottle caps, with broomsticks. Softball, everything. I played every sport. I actually didn’t know I liked to play baseball until I was 14.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p><strong>Did you do anything besides play sports?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Oh yeah. I went to school, and I got out of school, and I went to work. I had to get a working permit.</p> <p><strong>What about school? Were you a good student?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No. Not too good. You see, I break up the English a little bit. I don’t mean to do it, but it just comes out that way.</p> <figure id="attachment_2856" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-2856 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-006.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-2856 lazyload" alt="Berra had seldom played catcher before joining the Yankees. He soon became the dominant catcher of the era. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" width="2280" height="2963" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-006.jpg 2280w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-006-292x380.jpg 292w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-006-585x760.jpg 585w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-006.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Yogi Berra had seldom played catcher before joining the NY Yankees. He became the dominant catcher of the era.</figcaption></figure><p><strong>What was your favorite thing about school?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: When you had recess and could play a little softball.</p> <p><strong>Were you a tough kid?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No, I’m not that tough. I could take care of myself if I have to.</p> <p><strong>When you were growing up, did you have to take care of yourself?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Well, I took a little boxing lessons. I had fought in the clubs and the whole thing. I fought a little. I liked the sports. I love to watch sports right now. I love to watch hockey, I like football. Basketball? I’m not much of a fan. I admit that. I watch it, but I’m not much of a fan because I wasn’t that good at basketball.</p> <figure id="attachment_2857" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-2857 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-007.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-2857 size-full lazyload" alt="Yogi Berra poses for the press on the eve of his 13th World Series, October 1, 1962. He would play in 14 over the course of his career, and win ten. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" width="2280" height="2276" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-007.jpg 2280w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-007-190x190.jpg 190w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-007-380x380.jpg 380w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-007-760x760.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-007.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">October 1962: Yogi Berra on the eve of his 13th World Series. He would play in 14 during his career, and win ten.</figcaption></figure><p><strong>Why did you choose baseball?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Baseball? Where could you go and work three hours and make that kind of money? It’s just like Whitey Ford said. You know, they asked me, “What would you have done if you hadn’t been a baseball player?” “Work in a shoe factory.” They asked Whitey Ford, “What would you do?” “I’d probably be a bartender,” he says.</p> <p><strong>Thousands of kids dream of playing big-league baseball and never make it. You made it. How were you able to do that?</strong></p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/ixIEmdw4hGc?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=74&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_02_07_15.Still001-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_02_07_15.Still001-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/preparation/">Preparation</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">Yogi Berra: Well, it’s not an easy game. You got to stay at it. You really do. You know, a lot of people just think — we had guys — kids today, they’re organized today. We weren’t organized. Like you and I, you pitch to me, and I’d throw to you after. And, like I said, that cartball taught me a lot, softball. You got to keep your eye — you can’t swing hard in softball, that’s another thing. I never swung. If I swung hard, I would swing and miss a lot. And, you play with bottle caps, that ain’t gonna make you swing hard, neither. And one strike, you were out. And you had to get four hits before you get a run. And we played it day and night. We loved it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Whatever was in season. I played a lot of soccer. I love soccer. I love to watch soccer games on TV. And back there on the Hill, we played against — soccer, we had Spanish living there, the Italians and Germans and Irish.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We played against each other. And, I used to enjoy it. That was good. That’s a good conditioning game, that soccer. It is.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>What about your family? Tell us about your father and your family.</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: My father came over first. He came from the old country. And he didn’t know what baseball was. He was ready to go to work. And then I had three other brothers and a sister. My brother and my mother came over later on. My two oldest brothers, they were born there — Mike and Tony. John and I and my sister Josie were born in St. Louis. My father believed in working. You know, bring that check home! At that time, it was the Depression and everything, and he didn’t know what baseball was. And if I ever came home with dirty pants, I really caught a beating. But that’s funny.</p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y_EbBn5iGLg?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=31&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_01_18_09.Still004-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_01_18_09.Still004-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/vision/">Vision</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">I got started around 14. I worked in a shoe factory at 14. I had to get a working permit to work there. My brother Mike worked there too, and I used to go into work with him at 14. And then, I got a chance to play American Legion ball. I kind of skipped work a little bit, and I started to play.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At 15 and 16, I played American Legion ball. And, I said, “I’m going to play in the big leagues one of these days.”</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p><strong>Did you ever want to be anything else but a ballplayer?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No. I loved baseball. I loved it. I still love it.</p> <p><strong>What did your father think of that?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: He didn’t think nothing about that. “You go to work and bring that check home!” Like in the old country.</p> <figure id="attachment_2853" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-2853 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-004.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-2853 lazyload" alt="Yogi Berra in his prime, March 14, 1953. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" width="2280" height="2908" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-004.jpg 2280w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-004-298x380.jpg 298w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-004-596x760.jpg 596w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-004.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Yogi Berra in his prime, March 14, 1953. In the World Series that year, they defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in six games. This was the New York Yankees’ fifth consecutive World Series win, a record that still stands. (CORBIS)</figcaption></figure><p><strong>How did your father earn a living?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Worked in a brickyard. My brother Tony worked with a baker. Mike worked in a shoe factory. My brother John was a waiter.</p> <p><strong>The 5-foot, 8-inch son of an Italian immigrant, you grew up to reach the Hall of Fame? What made you think you could do this?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: I didn’t think I could. Not actually that.</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/jdEHTYareg0?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=29&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_10_41_27.Still003-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_10_41_27.Still003-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">I’m very happy about it. You know, a kid from the Hill being elected to the Hall of Fame. Proud of it. And actually, I could tell you something else. My brother Tony was the best ballplayer in the family. My dad wouldn’t let him go. And, I always kidded my dad, I said, “See that, Pops? You let all your sons go, you’d have been a millionaire.” He said, “Blame your mother.”</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">He was a tough man, but he’d treat you right. When I’d go out at night, he’d say, “What time are you coming home tonight?” He made me make the time. If you weren’t home at that time, you’d get it. That taught me discipline. I had to telephone.</span></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/6cewj-YfRw0?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=33&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_11_53_03.Still009-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_11_53_03.Still009-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">We had clubs on the Hill, we played against each other. My brother Tony played semi-pro ball. My brother Mike played semi-pro ball. My brother John played semi-pro ball. But, they only played on Sundays. And us kids, we played every darned day, you know, because they had to go to work. They really — every chance they had. And, they’re the ones that taught my dad to go and play baseball. They said, “We’re all working, give…” They called me “Lawdies” then, instead of Yogi. Lawdies. “Give him a chance to go out and play ball.” And, he says, “Okay.”</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p>So, I signed up. Leo Browne ran the American Legion team. See, I wanted to sign with the St. Louis Cardinals, either that, or the St. Louis Browns. I wanted to play for St. Louis. It’s home.</p> <figure id="attachment_12995" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-12995 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-015-berra-GettyImages-52968927_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-12995 size-full lazyload" alt="NEW YORK - OCTOBER 8: Pitcher Don Larsen (r), of the New York Yankees wraps his arms around catcher Yogi Berra after the final pitch of Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Yankee Stadium in New York. Larsen pitched the first perfect game in World Series history as the Yankees defeated Sal Maglie and the Dodgers, 2-0. (Photo by: Diamond Images/Getty Images)" width="2280" height="2279" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-015-berra-GettyImages-52968927_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-015-berra-GettyImages-52968927_master-190x190.jpg 190w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-015-berra-GettyImages-52968927_master-380x380.jpg 380w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-015-berra-GettyImages-52968927_master-760x760.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-015-berra-GettyImages-52968927_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Pitcher Don Larsen of the New York Yankees, wraps his arms around catcher Yogi Berra after the final pitch of Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Yankee Stadium in New York. Larsen pitched the first perfect game in World Series history as the New York Yankees defeated Sal Maglie and the Dodgers, 2-0. (<span class="_Tgc">© </span>Getty)</figcaption></figure><p><strong>You were christened “Lawrence.” How did you get the nickname “Yogi?”</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Playing American Legion ball.</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/uI0h2m0s8po?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=22&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_16_00_08.Still006-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Berra-Yogi-2005-MasterEdit.00_16_00_08.Still006-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">You know who gave it to me? Bobby Hoffman, who played with the Giants. We played on the same American Legion team. And, you know, we didn’t have no dugouts when we played. We sat on the ground, or a bench was full with the players. And, I was sitting on the ground with my legs crossed and my arms crossed. And he says, “You look like a Yogi.” And that stuck.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_6538" style="width: 1536px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-6538 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_berra_Academy2005_0100.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-6538 lazyload" alt="Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra is inducted into the Academy of Achievement by track and field legend Sir Roger Bannister at the 2005 International Achievement Summit in New York City. (© Academy of Achievement) " width="1536" height="1024" data-sizes="(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_berra_Academy2005_0100.jpg 1536w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_berra_Academy2005_0100-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_berra_Academy2005_0100-760x507.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_berra_Academy2005_0100.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra is inducted into the Academy of Achievement by track and field legend Sir Roger Bannister during the introductory symposium at the 2005 International Achievement Summit in New York City.</figcaption></figure><p><strong>Did you ever mind being called Yogi?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No. Not at all. It don’t bother me. A lot of guys called me different names. But we had our own nicknames on the Hill, anyhow, in St. Louis.</p></body></html> </div>    <aside class="collapse" id="full-interview">    <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p><strong>When you said to your father, “I want to be a professional ballplayer,” what did he say to you?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: “Well, we’ll give it a chance.” I wanted to sign with the Cardinals. That’s my home town. And the St. Louis Browns were there, but they didn’t want me. Leo Browne’s the one that got in touch with George Weiss. He knew George Weiss from umpiring up in New Haven, Connecticut. And he says, “I got a kid, he’s a pretty good ballplayer.” They were very close friends, because they umpired in a game in Connecticut, and he asked. “Okay, we’ll take a chance on him.”</p> <p><strong>Now, we’ve read that the Cardinals would have signed you, but you wanted more money.</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Well, Garagiola got $500. The Cardinals gave him $500. They didn’t want to give me $500. They wanted to give me $250. And, I wouldn’t do it.</p> <p><strong>What was it Branch Rickey told you when you were a teenager and he was General Manager of the Cardinals?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: He told me that I’d never be a ballplayer. I’d be a Triple A ballplayer, that’s about it. And, I said, “Nope. I won’t sign for that.” But it’s funny, when I signed with the Yankees, I get a telegram from Branch Rickey. He knew he was going to the Dodgers. So, he told me he didn’t want me to sign with the Cardinals. That’s what you want to hear. And, he sent a telegram, “Report at Bear Mountain for spring training with the Dodgers.” It was too late, though. I already signed with the Yankees.</p> <p><strong>Did that discourage you, when Rickey told you you’d never make the majors?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No, I would have signed with anybody because I loved to play the game. I didn’t like to work that much, either!</p> <p><strong>You didn’t doubt your ability?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No, I didn’t.</p> <p><strong>Were you ever worried about your size?</strong></p> <figure id="attachment_2852" style="width: 1760px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><noscript><img class="wp-image-2852 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-2852 size-full lazyload" alt="New York Yankees' Derek Jeter laughs with Yankee legend Yogi Berra while warming up before a season-opener game at the Tokyo Dome in Japan, March 27, 2004. (© ISSEI KATO/Reuters/Corbis)" width="1760" height="2200" data-sizes="(max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003.jpg 1760w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003-304x380.jpg 304w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003-608x760.jpg 608w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">New York Yankees’ Derek Jeter laughs with Yankee legend Yogi Berra while warming up before a season-opener game at the Tokyo Dome in Japan, March 27, 2004. (© ISSEI KATO/Reuters/Corbis)</figcaption></figure><p>Yogi Berra: No. I just like to hit, and the fun of the game is hitting. Well, you got to play a little defense, too. But hitting, I was very fortunate. You know, a lot of guys, “You’re a bad ball hitter.” I said, “No, the ball looked good to me. I swung at it.” I could leave a pitch alone the first time like that. The next time, I hit at it, and I do something with it. I have fun with [Derek] Jeter. You know, sometimes he strikes out on that ball up here. And, I get on him. I say, “What’d you swing at that ball for?” I says. “It looks good.” And he says, “You used to swing at it.” I said, “Yeah, but I hit it. You don’t.”</p> <p><strong>Before your career really got started, you served in World War II. What did you do?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: I went away when I was 17 years old. I was playing with Norfolk, Virginia when my birthday came. They let me finish out the season, and then I joined the Navy. I got in the Navy when I was 18 years old. And, from there they sent me to Bainbridge, Maryland, for boot camp. Then they shipped me down back to Norfolk where I started from, Little Creek down there — base down there. And, I got tired of sitting around. Then they said, “We’re looking for volunteers to go in the amphibs.” And they didn’t tell us what kind of boat, just “in the amphibs.” So, I joined in, I said, “Well, I want to join the amphibs.” There, being 18 years old. And, then they said I was on a rocket boat — 36-footer, with 12 rockets on each side, five machine guns, a twin-50 and the 330s. And only 36 feet, made out of wood and a little metal. And, when I went back — we went back to Bainbridge to do some training. And, I couldn’t write home and tell them what I was doing, because them boats weren’t out yet, for the invasion of Normandy. So, we started training there, and then we came back to Little Creek again and we started to train a little bit what we were supposed to do. It’s amazing what that little boat could do, though; that 36-footer. We could shoot out rockets. We could shoot one at a time, two at a time, or we could shoot all 24 at a time. We went in on the invasion. We were the first ones in, before the Army come in.</p> <p><strong>This was on D-Day?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: D-Day. Yeah. Normandy. And, we stand out about 300 yards off the beach, and we see what happens. If we ran into anything, we fire. First of all, we fire one rocket to find out if it reached the beach. And if it did, then we let out, shoot them all. And, we had extra rockets to fire. And, we had smoke pots on and everything. And, we did pretty good.</p> <p><strong>How long were you doing this — firing rockets — during the invasion?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: We stayed on the water for ten days. They gave us C-rations to eat while we were on it, slept on it. And, we finally got back on the ship, the USS Bayfield, P833. We were so tired, so they said — and no sooner had I got in the bed, we get a general quarters order. And, I said, “Tough luck. I’m not getting out of this bed. I’m staying right in it.” Fortunately enough, nothing happened to us. We were lucky. But, you just get so tired, you got to say that. But then, I enjoyed it. I wasn’t scared. Going into, it looked like Fourth of July. It really did. Eighteen-year-old kid, going in an invasion where we had — I’ve never seen so many planes in my life, we had going over there.</p> <p><strong>So when you came back from World War II, did you go straight back to baseball?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Yeah. I had played one year in Norfolk, Virginia, and when I came back to Norfolk again, they said, “We’re going to send you up to the submarine base.” I said, “Wait a minute. I didn’t volunteer for any submarines. I’m not going…”</p> <p>“Now we’re going to send you up to a ship’s company, you get on the base up there.” I said, “Okay.” So I went in, and they had a ball team, and we were making the ball team there. And, Jim Gleason that played with the Cincinnati Reds was our lieutenant commander there. He was in charge of — the athletic director there. And he asked me, “What do you do?” I said, “I play ball.” He thought I was a boxer at first, you know. And I said, “No, I play ball.” And he said, “Who do you play with?” And I said, “I’m going to the Yankees.” He didn’t believe me. So, then we built our own ball park at New London submarine base, and we played there. And he would never use me, for a while. Then he finally put me in for a pinch hitter. I got a home run and then I stayed in. He made me play. He was a good man, that lieutenant commander. Jim Gleason, he was a good man. I made him a coach after I was manager. He was a great guy.</p> <p><strong>Who first saw the potential in you?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Well, what helped me a lot, that was like Triple A. You had people coming in from the service. I played with Junior Thompson, who pitched for Cincinnati; Jim Gleason, who played with Cincinnati. I had Walter Johnson, who pitched for Washington; Al Gettel, he pitched for the Yankees. We had a mix. Then we played some of the big league teams. We played the Browns. We played the New York Giants. I had a good day against the Giants.</p> <p><strong>But somebody had to have seen you as a kid in St. Louis and said, “That guy could be a big-league ballplayer.” Who was that?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Well, actually, it was the one who managed our American Legion team. He was a scout. And he told Rickey, “Sign him. I know what he could do.” And that’s when he said I’d never be a big-league ballplayer. But he knew he was going to the Dodgers. I asked the Browns, “Why don’t you give me that?” They said, “We ain’t gonna give it to you.”</p> <p><strong>Weren’t you intimidated by the idea of playing for the Yankees?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: I wanted $500. I didn’t care who gave it to me.</p> <p><strong>Is it true that the Giants offered the Yankees $50,000 for your contract when you were still playing in the minors?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Yes, they did. (Larry) McPhail was our general manager. He wanted to know, “Who in the hell is this kid Yogi Berra that they want to give me $50,000 for?”</p> <p><strong>Was anything about baseball difficult for you? What was hard?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No, it wasn’t that difficult. I had fun. It’s a fun game, to me. I don’t know how other people take it. I could take it, you know. We’d get beat or something. Well, they were better than us today. We’ll get ’em tomorrow. I could take a loss. I really can take a loss.</p> <p><strong>You were still a kid in 1947, when you first went up to the big leagues. In the beginning, weren’t you anxious?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: I was a lousy catcher ’til they got Bill Dickey there. Dickey worked me hard. And, I liked it, though, what he did for me. I owe everything to Bill Dickey, I really do. He made me a good catcher. How to block balls. I try to do that to some of the kids today. They’ve got their own style, some today, you know. And, now everybody tells me, “Boy, you’re so short.” I say, “Well, I make a good target. I don’t have to bend down so far. I’m in the strike zone all the time.” But Dickey, he really worked me, boy. Worked me to death, and I loved him for it. And, then it came easy. It came easy for me. Like a lot of people, I try to tell them, I know they take that crow hop now, you know, when they throw to second base, but I don’t. But see, I go <em>into</em> a ball. I can let you swing a bat, and I go across home plate, you won’t hit me.</p> <p><strong>You also had this reputation of swinging at bad pitches. Did managers try to get you to change your style?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No. Dickey also helped me. I could hit the ball the other way, too. Two strikes, I always guard the plate. And then there’s some pitchers out there, I don’t care what he threw, I could hit it. And if he threw a curve ball, he’s not going to fool me. Sometimes a pitcher gives away their pitches to a hitter, if you’re paying close attention to their pitching. [Ramon] Manon, like, in a stretch, he could come down so far for a fast ball, comes down lower for a curve ball. You watch him. They had a pitcher on Baltimore, a black guy. When you see the white of his hand, it was a fast ball. When you didn’t see the white, it was a curve ball. And he could tell you right away, what you’re hitting.</p> <p><strong>Were you ever nervous playing the game?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: You’re always nervous at the beginning, the first pitch. You get a little tense. When the game starts, then it’s all right.</p> <p><strong>What about your first World Series game?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Yeah, I was a little tense at the beginning. It’s my first time. Look, my first year in the big leagues, I’m in the World Series!</p> <p><strong>What are you thinking if you’re at bat, and it’s the last of the ninth? The winning runs are on, and the count’s three-and-two. What is going through your head?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Well, I feel that a good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain’t got no place to put you. He’s going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don’t want to walk you. So, like I said, if I saw it, I hit it.</p> <p><strong>When you went to the Yankees, the Yankees had a lot of good Italian American ballplayers. Was that special for you, to be with DiMaggio, and Crosetti?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: You had Rizutto. It was always good to see them. These guys are stars. DiMaggio, I played five years with him. Phil, about seven. Crosetti, he was a coach. He was in more World Series than I was, as a coach and a player. He was in, I think, 23. I’ve been in 21 of them.</p> <p><strong>Yes, but nobody’s won more than you have.</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No.</p> <p><strong>When you were a kid on the Hill, could you imagine that you would make that journey to Yankee Stadium? To the Hall of Fame? To ten World Series championships?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No. Once you start playing though, we felt like we were going to win. We really did. We used to hold our own meetings, the ballplayers. You know, “There’s something wrong here. Hey, let’s get going. Time’s getting late.” Like Charlie Silvera, the backup catcher, he’d come in, he’d say, “C’mon, guys. I need a new wing on my house. Let’s go.” You know, the first World Series, we got $5,000. That’s my first salary, was $5,000. And we got five. We got the biggest when we played the Giants in ’51. We got about $10,000… $11,000. Bigger ballpark. We’d vote for the Giants, so we could get more money.</p> <p><strong>How do you handle the pressure of playing in front of all those people, and millions more on television?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: It didn’t bother me. That didn’t bother me. The only guy you watch is that guy pitching.</p> <p><strong>You’re not even worried about letting down your teammates?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: If I don’t get a hit. But I always watch the pitcher. That’s who I watch all the time. And the fans, you hear booing or something, don’t even bother me. I play a lot of golf. You could talk, that don’t bother me if I’m hitting a golf ball.</p> <p><strong>What about handling criticism? Athletes are subjected to criticism on the sports page every day. How do you handle that?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Pretty good, I guess. You get more criticism when you’re a manager than when you’re playing. In fact, I had one writer come in one time, the ball got away from the catcher, and he comes in and says, “Geez, what happened?” I said, “Didn’t you see the game? What happened? It got away from the catcher.” That builds you up a little bit.</p> <p><strong>Did you read the sports page every day?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Yes. Yes, I liked to read it. I liked to see the teams who were playing. We were riding on the train, you get the paper. If we’re going into Cleveland, we’d watch if one guy who was hitting good, and I felt that if a guy was pitching the day we get in, “This guy’s hot, we got to be careful with him.” You know.</p> <p><strong>Did you ever feel that you were treated unfairly? What about umpires?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Once in a while. I think I only got thrown out twice in all the years I played. Managing, I got knocked off twice.</p> <p><strong>Did you deserve it?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No, I didn’t deserve it. When Jackie Robinson was out, that’s one time I argued real mad. I had lot of fun. A story — I might say that tonight, you know — if people want to hear a little story from when Whitey Ford threw four pitches, four runs. You ever heard of that story? Playing the White Sox? Nellie Fox lead off, no he batted second. [Luis] Aparicio got on. He got a base hit. Nellie Fox got a base hit. The next guy hit. The next guy hit a home run. And Casey [Stengel] came out to me and said, “Has Whitey got anything?” I said, “What the hell do I know? I haven’t caught one yet!” We did a lot of stuff. We had a lot of fun, I’ll tell you. One time, Mickey called a game in Boston. He wanted to call the game. I said, “You want to call the game?” Whitey was pitching. And Whitey said, “Okay, let him call the game. See what happens.” And we had a sign, when Mickey bent down it was a fast ball. If he stood straight up, it was a curve ball. And if he’d shake his glove, it was a change-up. And, we went for seven innings like that. We were winning two-to-nothing. So, we come in after the eighth inning and he says, “You’re doing pretty good, Mick.” And he said, “I quit. You take over now. I’m finished.”</p> <p><strong>Did the manager know you were doing that?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No. No, he didn’t.</p> <p><strong>Playing a game like baseball, do you have to have fun? Do you have to enjoy it?</strong></p> <figure id="attachment_2861" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignright"><noscript><img class="wp-image-2861 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-013.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-2861 size-full lazyload" alt="Yogi Berra tags the Dodgers' Jackie Robinson as Robinson slides into home plate during the 1955 World Series. The umpire said, "Safe." Yogi disagreed. (Courtesy of Yogi Berra)" width="2280" height="2759" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-013.jpg 2280w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-013-314x380.jpg 314w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-013-628x760.jpg 628w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-013.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Yogi Berra tags the Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson as Robinson slides into home plate during the 1955 World Series. The umpire said, “Safe.” Yogi disagreed. (Courtesy of Yogi Berra)</figcaption></figure><p>Yogi Berra: I think so. Yeah. You’ve got to have fun. You know, we played the Dodgers in a lot of World Series. We thought we were enemies. We weren’t. When we’re on the field we are, but off the field we weren’t. Because I went barnstorming with Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider and all them guys. And we had fun. But once the games start, you know, you’re on your own. But after the game, real good chatter and everything. I liked to talk to the hitters. I just liked to talk to the hitters. But not when the ball was on the way. I’d just say, like: “Where you going tonight?” “What are you doing in the wintertime?” Just to keep a conversation going.</p> <p><strong>Did you ever give a batter a hard time before the pitch?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No. Sometimes I’d get him mad, I threw dirt on his shoes a little bit once in awhile.</p> <p><strong>Did it help?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No. Like [Larry] Doby, a very good friend of mine, he’d tell me, “Shut up. Don’t talk to me when I’m hitting.” Ted Williams used to say, “You old dago, you’re twisted up.” I’d say, “When you going fishing this year, Ted?” And he didn’t like to talk. He’d talk to you after. But he was a nice guy, too. We did a lot of things with him. My son went to his baseball school, even.</p> <p><strong>What do you talk about with umpires? Did you talk to umpires when you were catching?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Yeah. I said sometimes, “That ball was pretty close, wasn’t it?” and all that. Yeah. You talk to the umpires. They don’t like for you to turn around. That’s the only thing. You look straight ahead, don’t do nothing. There’s one story I could tell you about Cal Hubbard. We were playing a game in Boston. We were way ahead. And, I wanted to get out of the game. It was hot. And, I said, “Well, you missed that damn ball. You missed that, Cal. What’s the matter with you? You having a bad day back there?” and everything, you know. And he said, “Yogi, you could call me anything you want. If I’m going to suffer, you’re going to suffer with me.”</p> <p><strong>You were known as a great clutch hitter. Somebody once said that the toughest hitter in baseball in the last three innings was Yogi Berra. What made you so good under pressure?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: I don’t know. Maybe I was just lucky. I loved to hit with men on base. Dickey used to holler at me, “You’re wasting time at bat with nobody on base,” he says.</p> <p><strong>You were an All-Star from ’48 to ’62. You won three Most Valuable Player awards. You don’t go to the Hall of Fame because you’re lucky.</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Well. Like I said, I liked to hit with men on.</p> <p><strong>Is that your favorite moment in a game? Having the bat in your hands?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Oh, yeah. I think that’s the fun of it. That’s a challenge.</p> <p><strong>Was there a pitcher that gave you trouble? Any pitcher you didn’t like?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No. Well, Herb Score. I remember Herb Score was a tough man. I had a tough time with Alex Kellner in Philadelphia, ’til I got the hang of him. But he gave me a little rough time. But Herb Score could have been another Sandy Koufax, I think, if he didn’t get hit in the eye with Gil McDougald’s line drive.</p> <p><strong>When you were growing up, did you have any trouble hitting the curve ball?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Not that much. But some of these guys, like Herb Score, if he got it over, tough luck. I didn’t look for a curve ball from him.</p> <p><strong>What about Sandy Koufax? What was it like standing against him?</strong></p> <figure id="attachment_2859" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignright"><noscript><img class="wp-image-2859 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-010.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-2859 size-full lazyload" alt="Berra managed the Yankees to a pennant victory in the 1964 season. Here, he waits for the start of the Yankees' first game against the Cardinals in the World Series. October 10, 1964. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" width="2280" height="3408" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-010.jpg 2280w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-010-254x380.jpg 254w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-010-508x760.jpg 508w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-010.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Berra managed the Yankees to a pennant victory in the 1964 season. Here, he waits for the start of the Yankees’ first game against the Cardinals in the World Series. October 10, 1964. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)</figcaption></figure><p>Yogi Berra: You know, I never batted against him. Not in the World Series, or anything. The only time I batted against him was in spring training. And he didn’t know where the ball was going then. When I was over with the Mets I saw him pitch. He was a pretty good pitcher. And them guys said, “You’re lucky you don’t have to hit against him.” I said, “I’d like to hit at him now. He’s got control. You should have batted against him when he couldn’t find home plate!”</p> <p><strong>You were a pennant-winning manager. What did you learn about leadership, being a manager, that you didn’t know as a player?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Oh, I think I watched the game pretty good. I watched the pitcher. You see how many catchers are managers today, don’t you? They know the game. They know when the pitchers are a little tired, or something like that. You get a good pitching coach with you, you can have a lot of fun.</p> <p><strong>What’s tougher, being a player or being a manager?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: A player? Tougher? No, I’d just play. I was just playing. It’s harder now, I think, in the National League. I wish they’d go back to the old way in the National League. No, DH or anything. I liked that better. I know people like to see home runs, more hits and everything.</p> <p><strong>What was your reaction when you learned that you had won the Most Valuable Player award for the first time?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Oh, it was great. It was great. I celebrated at the golf club. I did. I missed out the first time. A lot of guys asked me, “How come you didn’t make it the first time?” I said, “Joe DiMaggio didn’t make it on the first time, either.” Today, I guess, it’s a little different. Baseball’s changed a little bit today.</p> <p><strong>Can you pick out one moment that is the most important to you as a ballplayer?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Oh heck, I’ve got a few of them. The three Most Valuable Players, getting elected in the Hall of Fame. You know, I caught the no-hitter. The no-hitter, with Don Larsen pitching in the World Series. A perfect game. It never happened before and it hasn’t happened since. He’s the only one.</p> <p><strong>What were you thinking then? Two outs in the ninth inning. One batter away from a perfect game in the World Series, and you’re the catcher.</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: I was pulling for him. He had good stuff that day.</p> <p><strong>Did you have to think twice about what pitches to call?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No. He got everything over. He went to three balls on one hitter in the first inning. That’s all. He only threw 96 pitches. And anything I put down, he got over. Never shook me off once.</p> <p><strong>Are you at all surprised about what you were able to accomplish?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Oh, heck. Yep. What I like about baseball, I made a lot of good friends. You can meet some bad ones too, don’t get me wrong, but I think I met mostly good ones. Regular, like we keep in touch, the Yankees, the old guys. You know, I still keep in touch with our guys. I see Whitey [Ford]. I see Whitey all the time. Johnny Kucks, Gil McDougald, we see each other. I think a lot of them are passed away now. You know, Mickey [Mantle]. Mickey don’t look like — 10 years now he’s been out of the game. I miss him. I miss Billy Martin because we had fun. We really did. We did it the right way — and sometimes we didn’t!</p> <p><strong>Its been 40 years since you played your last game, but you’re still held in enormous affection by the American public. How do you account for that?</strong></p> <figure id="attachment_12363" style="width: 450px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><noscript><img class="wp-image-12363 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-001.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-12363 size-full lazyload" alt="Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra, folk philosopher and baseball legend. (Courtesy of Lawrence Peter Berra)" width="450" height="443" data-sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-001.jpg 450w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-001-380x374.jpg 380w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-001.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra, folk philosopher and baseball legend. (Courtesy of Yogi Berra)</figcaption></figure><p>Yogi Berra: I don’t know. Maybe it’s my Yogi-isms. I don’t know. You know, a lot of guys, I can walk down, sit at dinner, say, “Say a Yogi-ism.” I say, “I don’t even know I say ’em! I don’t know. I can’t say ’em.” But my kids could catch me right away. Then, I could be at the museum, my museum in New Jersey, at Montclair State, they say, “Dad, you said another one.” I didn’t even know what the heck I said. Joe always tells me, he don’t know, but he’s got to think a little bit. But, then it comes out right, he says. But, it takes a little time. They just pop up, you know. And, I have fun. People come up to me, like at the airport. They look at you. “No, you can’t be.” You know, “You can’t be Yogi Berra.” Yeah, a lot of people tell me that in New York, I look like him. I have fun with the people at the airport, too, saying — a lot of guys say, “You look like Yogi Berra.” “Yeah, a lot of people tell me that.”</p> <p><strong>Has it ever been difficult being Yogi Berra?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No, pretty good. I like it. I really do. Like I said, I met a lot of good people. And baseball, I’ve made a lot of friends. I love baseball. I still do. I go out and watch the Yankees. I’d go out to Shea once in a while. I like to see it. I watch it on television. I like sports. That’s what I like. I like sports.</p> <p><strong>What it is about sports that you like so much? Why?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: It’s a good game. That’s why I like it. It’s a good conditioning game. Healthy game, you don’t get hurt, you know. A little bit. And I’ve been very fortunate. At my age, I work out. I do. I still go work out. I like it. I don’t lift weights. I don’t know if the weights hurt them guys now today, I don’t know. I like to stretch, do my walking, and do my exercise.</p> <p><strong>If a young person came to you for advice, and said, “Yogi, I’d like to be a professional ball player.” What would you say to him?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Work hard at it. It’s not easy. Anytime you got a chance to hit, hit! And, that’s what we did. And, practice what you’re doing. You know, fielding, whatever position you play. I never caught until I turned pro. I played second base, I pitched a little bit, and I played outfield. And, they thought I had a good arm, but I didn’t know where I was going. That’s when they got hold of Dickey. Like I said, I was a terrible catcher, but I had somebody to teach me.</p> <p><strong>What would you say to them if they asked you about steroids, and performance-enhancing drugs?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Oh, heck. I don’t know. I don’t even know what steroids look like, to tell you the truth. I really don’t. The only thing that I took was a vitamin pill. Dunkin’ Donuts and a cup of coffee in the morning, and playing ball.</p> <p><strong>What if they asked you about baseball today?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: Well, it’s changed a little bit. They’re making the parks small. They want to see home runs today. It seems like it, they want to do that and I get a kick out of them. You know, they run around the park. You know, they jog around the park. And, I used to tell them when I was coaching, I said, “Do you jog when you run to first base?” We used to do 20 laps, 100 yards, and walk back. A hundred yards. After every spring training game, we always did. Pitchers used to run from foul-line to foul-line, and they used to do it during the season while he wasn’t pitching. The starters would do it. ‘Cause they’re all four bases. Running was a lot to us. They made you run.</p> <p><strong>Some kids today may not know what a “Yogi-ism” is. Do you have a favorite one that you would share?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: “When you come to the fork in the road, take it.” “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” “Nobody goes there, it’s too crowded.” “It gets early out here.” But, like I said, they just come out. I wish I knew, though because I could make a million. But, I don’t do it on purpose, that’s the bad part about it. I don’t do it on purpose. My wife tells me, “Say it right.”</p> <figure id="attachment_2860" style="width: 2200px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-2860 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-011.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-2860 size-full lazyload" alt="Yogi Berra tips his cap to the crowd as he is introduced during the 59th annual Old Timer's Day at Yankee Stadium, July 9, 2005. (© Ray Stubblebine/Reuters/Corbis )" width="2200" height="2147" data-sizes="(max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px" data-srcset="/web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-011.jpg 2200w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-011-380x371.jpg 380w, /web/20190102100658im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-011-760x742.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190102100658/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-011.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Yogi Berra tips his cap to the crowd as he is introduced during the 59th annual Old Timer’s Day at Yankee Stadium, July 9, 2005. (© Ray Stubblebine/Reuters/Corbis)</figcaption></figure><p><strong>Is there anything in your career you’d like to do over again?</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: No. If I had to come back to life again, I’d like to be a ballplayer. Like I said, where could you make the money, working three hours and having fun?</p> <p><strong>There is no question about what you’ve accomplished in baseball; it’s been a singular career. But did you ever think that you would be thought of as a philosopher, as a folk hero? A <em>New York Times</em> columnist called you that a couple of weeks ago.</strong></p> <p>Yogi Berra: I don’t know. No, I don’t know the name of the other thing. I don’t know. But I got my museum. I have fun at the museum with the kids we have come there. You know, usually when you get a museum named after you, you’re dead. And I’m still alive to see it. And I have my granddaughter, three months old, over there at the museum today. She come over. I got 10 grandkids. They’re all good. And I’ve got a wife, I’ve been married 55 years. Not bad, either.</p> <p><strong>Not bad, either. All right. Thank you very much. It’s been a pleasure and a privilege.</strong></p> <p>And I thank <em>you</em>.</p></body></html> </div>  </aside>  <div class="read-more__toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#full-interview"><a href="#" class="sans-4 btn">Read full interview</a></div> </article> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="gallery" role="tabpanel"> <section class="isotope-wrapper">  <header class="toolbar toolbar--gallery bg-white clearfix"> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="serif-4">Yogi Berra Gallery</div> </div> <div class="col-md-6 text-md-right isotope-toolbar"> <ul class="list-unstyled list-inline m-b-0 text-brand-primary sans-4"> <li class="list-inline-item" data-filter=".photo"><i class="icon-icon_camera"></i>19 photos</li> </ul> </div> </header> <div class="isotope-gallery isotope-box single-achiever__gallery clearfix"> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3217391304348" title="New York Yankees Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra throws out the opening day pitch before the Yankees game with the Detroit Tigers, April 9, 1999 at Yankee Stadium. It was Berra's first appearance in the Stadium in 14 years since he was fired as manager by owner George Steinbrenner.(© Reuters/CORBIS/Ray Stubblebine)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - New York Yankees Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra throws out the opening day pitch before the Yankees game with the Detroit Tigers, April 9, 1999 at Yankee Stadium. It was Berra's first appearance in the Stadium in 14 years since he was fired as manager by owner George Steinbrenner.(© Reuters/CORBIS/Ray Stubblebine)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/UT0013115.jpg" data-image-caption="New York Yankees Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra throws out the opening day pitch before the Yankees game with the Detroit Tigers, April 9, 1999 at Yankee Stadium. It was Berra's first appearance in the Stadium in 14 years, since he was fired as manager by owner George Steinbrenner. (© Reuters/CORBIS/Ray Stubblebine)" data-image-copyright="YOGI BERRA TOSSES OPENING DAY PITCH AFTER 14 YEAR ABSENCE" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/UT0013115-288x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/UT0013115-575x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2101910828025" title="Yogi Berra tags the Dodgers' Jackie Robinson as Robinson slides into home plate during the 1955 World Series. The umpire said, " safe." yogi disagreed. (courtesy of yogi berra)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - Yogi Berra tags the Dodgers' Jackie Robinson as Robinson slides into home plate during the 1955 World Series. The umpire said, " safe." yogi disagreed. (courtesy of yogi berra)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-013.jpg" data-image-caption="Yogi Berra tags the Dodgers' Jackie Robinson as Robinson slides into home plate during the 1955 World Series. The umpire said, "Safe." Yogi disagreed. (Courtesy of Yogi Berra)" data-image-copyright="ber0-013" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-013-314x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-013-628x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.97631578947368" title="Yogi Berra tips his cap to the crowd as he is introduced during the 59th annual Old Timer's Day at Yankee Stadium, July 9, 2005. (© Ray Stubblebine/Reuters/Corbis )" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - Yogi Berra tips his cap to the crowd as he is introduced during the 59th annual Old Timer's Day at Yankee Stadium, July 9, 2005. (© Ray Stubblebine/Reuters/Corbis )">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-011.jpg" data-image-caption="Yogi Berra tips his cap to the crowd as he is introduced during the 59th annual Old Timer's Day at Yankee Stadium, July 9, 2005. (© Ray Stubblebine/Reuters/Corbis)" data-image-copyright="Baseball 2005 - Yankees Old Timer's Game" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-011-380x371.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-011-760x742.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.496062992126" title="Berra managed the Yankees to a pennant victory in the 1964 season. Here, he waits for the start of the Yankees' first game against the Cardinals in the World Series. October 10, 1964. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - Berra managed the Yankees to a pennant victory in the 1964 season. Here, he waits for the start of the Yankees' first game against the Cardinals in the World Series. October 10, 1964. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-010.jpg" data-image-caption="Berra managed the Yankees to a pennant victory in the 1964 season. Here, he waits for the start of the Yankees' first game against the Cardinals in the World Series. October 10, 1964. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" data-image-copyright="Yankee Manager Yogi Berra" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-010-254x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-010-508x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.71973684210526" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WP-Academy2005_0027.jpg" data-image-caption="Yogi Berra with fellow members of the Class of 2005, NBC’S Today Show co-anchor Katie Couric and MIT President Dr. Susan Hockfield, with Summit Host Catherine B. Reynolds and Academy members President Bill Clinton and track and field legend Sir Roger Bannister at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the 2005 Summit in New York." data-image-copyright="WP-Academy2005_0027" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WP-Academy2005_0027-380x274.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WP-Academy2005_0027-760x547.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1" title="Yogi Berra poses for the press on the eve of his 13th World Series, October 1, 1962. He would play in 14 over the course of his career, and win ten. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - Yogi Berra poses for the press on the eve of his 13th World Series, October 1, 1962. He would play in 14 over the course of his career, and win ten. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-007.jpg" data-image-caption="Yogi Berra poses for the press on the eve of his 13th World Series, October 1, 1962. He would play in 14 over the course of his career, and win ten. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" data-image-copyright="New York Yankees Catcher Yogi Berra Holding a Baseball" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-007-380x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-007-760x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2991452991453" title="Berra had seldom played catcher before joining the Yankees. He soon became the dominant catcher of the era. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - Berra had seldom played catcher before joining the Yankees. He soon became the dominant catcher of the era. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-006.jpg" data-image-caption="Yogi Berra had seldom played catcher before joining the Yankees. He became the dominant catcher of the era." data-image-copyright="New York Yankees Catcher Yogi Berra" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-006-292x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-006-585x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.80526315789474" title="The four Yankees picked for the American League team in the 1950 All-Star game: Phil Rizzuto, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, and Gerry Coleman. July 8, 1950. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - The four Yankees picked for the American League team in the 1950 All-Star game: Phil Rizzuto, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, and Gerry Coleman. July 8, 1950. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-005.jpg" data-image-caption="The four Yankees picked for the American League team in the 1950 All-Star game: Phil Rizzuto, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, and Gerry Coleman. July 8, 1950. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" data-image-copyright="Yankees Holding Their Bats" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-005-380x306.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-005-760x612.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2751677852349" title="Yogi Berra in his prime, March 14, 1953. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - Yogi Berra in his prime, March 14, 1953. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-004.jpg" data-image-caption="Yogi Berra in his prime, March 14, 1953. (CORBIS)" data-image-copyright="Baseball Player Yogi Berra" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-004-298x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-004-596x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.25" title="New York Yankees' Derek Jeter laughs with Yankee legend Yogi Berra while warming up before a season-opener game at the Tokyo Dome in Japan, March 27, 2004. (© ISSEI KATO/Reuters/Corbis)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - New York Yankees' Derek Jeter laughs with Yankee legend Yogi Berra while warming up before a season-opener game at the Tokyo Dome in Japan, March 27, 2004. (© ISSEI KATO/Reuters/Corbis)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003.jpg" data-image-caption="New York Yankees' Derek Jeter laughs with Yankee legend Yogi Berra while warming up before a season-opener game at the Tokyo Dome in Japan, March 27, 2004. (© ISSEI KATO/Reuters/Corbis)" data-image-copyright="Major League Baseball 2004 - Yankess and Devil Rays in Japan" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003-304x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-003-608x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.77631578947368" title="Berra was a dominant hitter throughout the 1950s. Here he is in action in May 1956. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - Berra was a dominant hitter throughout the 1950s. Here he is in action in May 1956. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-002.jpg" data-image-caption="Yogi Berra was a dominant hitter during the 1950s. Here he is in action in May 1956 against the Cleveland Indians." data-image-copyright="Yogi Berra Batting at Home Plate" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-002-380x295.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ber0-002-760x590.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_berra_Academy2005_0100.jpg" data-image-caption="Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra is inducted into the Academy of Achievement by track and field legend Sir Roger Bannister at the 2005 International Achievement Summit in New York City. (© Academy of Achievement) " data-image-copyright="wordpress_berra_Academy2005_0100" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_berra_Academy2005_0100-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_berra_Academy2005_0100-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.317157712305" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/HOF_Berra_Yogi_plaque-creative-commons.jpg" data-image-caption="Yogi Berra's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame. (Creative Commons)" data-image-copyright="Yogi Berra's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame (Creative Commons)" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/HOF_Berra_Yogi_plaque-creative-commons-289x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/HOF_Berra_Yogi_plaque-creative-commons-577x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.80394736842105" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-019-berra-GettyImages-515457360_master.jpg" data-image-caption="September 14, 1953: Yankee catcher Yogi Berra is the center of this scene of joy and jubilation after the New York Yankees clinched their record-breaking fifth straight pennant. Berra's two-run homer in the seventh inning broke a 5-5 tie and gave the Yankees their 20th flag in an 8-5 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Unseen, but not forgotten, is Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, who is buried beneath the pile of Yankees - that's his leg under Yogi. Yankee co-owners Dan Topping (left) and Del Webb (right) join in the victory horseplay. The win sent the Yankees into the World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers, with the Yankees seeking their fifth world title in a row. (Getty)" data-image-copyright="Yogi Berra and Yankees Celebrating" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-019-berra-GettyImages-515457360_master-380x306.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-019-berra-GettyImages-515457360_master-760x611.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.95" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-018-berra-GettyImages-515350562_master.jpg" data-image-caption="Yogi Berra is shown here at Yankee Stadium with his sons, Lawrence and Timmy, his wife, Carmen, and her father, Pietro, on September 19, 1959. Yogi and his wife Carmen were married for 65 years until her death in 2014. (Bettmann-Getty)" data-image-copyright="Yogi Berra Shown With His Family" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-018-berra-GettyImages-515350562_master-380x361.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-018-berra-GettyImages-515350562_master-760x722.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2794612794613" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-017-berra-GettyImages-515208618_master.jpg" data-image-caption="June 1948: Berra shakes hands with Yankee legend Babe Ruth on Babe Ruth Day at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis." data-image-copyright="Babe Ruth and Yogi Berra Shaking Hands" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-017-berra-GettyImages-515208618_master-297x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-017-berra-GettyImages-515208618_master-594x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.63815789473684" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-016-berra-GettyImages-489827098_master.jpg" data-image-caption="New York Yankees Manager Yogi Berra in dugout during a game against the Baltimore Orioles at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, April 19, 1964. (Photo by Herb Scharfman /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Baltimore Orioles vs New York Yankees" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-016-berra-GettyImages-489827098_master-380x242.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-016-berra-GettyImages-489827098_master-760x485.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-015-berra-GettyImages-52968927_master.jpg" data-image-caption="Pitcher Don Larsen (right), of the New York Yankees, wraps his arms around catcher Yogi Berra after the final pitch of Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Yankee Stadium in New York. Larsen pitched the first perfect game in World Series history as the Yankees defeated Sal Maglie and the Dodgers, 2-0. (Photo by: Diamond Images/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="WORLD SERIES - Brooklyn Dodgers v New York Yankees" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-015-berra-GettyImages-52968927_master-380x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ber0-015-berra-GettyImages-52968927_master-760x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.65394736842105" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-GettyImages-81474560.jpg" data-image-caption="UNITED STATES - JUNE 11: Baseball: New York Yankees Yogi Berra (8) in action, making throw vs Cleveland Indians, Cleveland, OH 6/11/1955 (Photo by Hy Peskin/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images) (SetNumber: X2733)" data-image-copyright="New York Yankees Yogi Berra" 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Gaines</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/william-h-gates-iii/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William H. Gates III</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/leymah-gbowee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leymah Gbowee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-gehry/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank O. Gehry</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/murray-gell-mann-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-ghosn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Ghosn</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/vince-gill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Vince Gill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ruth-bader-ginsburg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/louise-gluck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louise Glück</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/whoopi-goldberg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Whoopi Goldberg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jane-goodall/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Jane Goodall</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/doris-kearns-goodwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mikhail-s-gorbachev/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mikhail S. Gorbachev</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nadine-gordimer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nadine Gordimer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/stephen-jay-gould/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carol-greider-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carol Greider, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-grisham/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Grisham</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-john-gurdon/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir John Gurdon</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/dorothy-hamill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dorothy Hamill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Demis Hassabis, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lauryn-hill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lauryn Hill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-edmund-hillary/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Edmund Hillary</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/reid-hoffman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Reid Hoffman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/khaled-hosseini/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Khaled Hosseini, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ron-howard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Howard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-hume/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Hume</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/louis-ignarro-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/daniel-inouye/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Daniel K. Inouye</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jeremy-irons/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jeremy Irons</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-irving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Irving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/kazuo-ishiguro/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Kazuo Ishiguro</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-peter-jackson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Peter Jackson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/donald-c-johanson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-m-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank M. Johnson, Jr.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/philip-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Philip C. Johnson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/chuck-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Chuck Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Earl Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/quincy-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Quincy Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/beverly-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Beverly Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/dereck-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dereck Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/paul-kagame/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Kagame</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/thomas-keller-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Thomas Keller</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/anthony-m-kennedy/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony M. Kennedy</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/b-b-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">B.B. King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carole-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carole King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/coretta-scott-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Coretta Scott King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/henry-kissinger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/willem-j-kolff/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wendy-kopp/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wendy Kopp</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/henry-r-kravis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry R. Kravis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nicholas D. Kristof</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mike-krzyzewski/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mike Krzyzewski</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ray-kurzwell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Kurzweil</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/eric-lander-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-s-langer-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/richard-leakey/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Richard E. Leakey</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/leon-lederman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Lederman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-lefkowitz-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Congressman John R. Lewis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/maya-lin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Maya Lin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/george-lucas/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George Lucas</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/norman-mailer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Norman Mailer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/peyton-manning/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peyton Manning</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wynton-marsalis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wynton Marsalis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-c-mather-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John C. Mather, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/johnny-mathis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Mathis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ernst-mayr-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/willie-mays/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willie Mays</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-mccourt/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank McCourt</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-mccullough/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David McCullough</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/audra-mcdonald/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Audra McDonald</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/admiral-william-h-mcraven/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral William H. McRaven, USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/w-s-merwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">W. S. Merwin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-a-michener/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James A. Michener</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/marvin-minsky-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Marvin Minsky, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mario-j-molina-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/n-scott-momaday-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/story-musgrave/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Story Musgrave, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ralph-nader/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ralph Nader</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/peggy-noonan/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peggy Noonan</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jessye-norman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jessye Norman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/tommy-norris/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lt. Thomas R. Norris, USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/joyce-carol-oates/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Joyce Carol Oates</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/pierre-omidyar/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Pierre Omidyar</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jimmy-page/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jimmy Page</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/larry-page/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Larry Page</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/arnold-palmer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Arnold Palmer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/leon-panetta/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Panetta</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/rosa-parks/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Rosa Parks</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/suzan-lori-parks/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Suzan-Lori Parks</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/linus-pauling/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/shimon-peres/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Shimon Peres</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/itzhak-perlman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Itzhak Perlman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/general-david-petraeus/"><span class="achiever-list-name">General David H. Petraeus, USA</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sidney-poitier/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sidney Poitier</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/general-colin-l-powell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">General Colin L. Powell, USA</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/harold-prince/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Harold Prince</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/venki-ramakrishnan-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lord-martin-rees/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lord Martin Rees</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lloyd-richards/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lloyd Richards</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sally-ride-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sally K. Ride, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sonny-rollins/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sonny Rollins</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/anthony-romero/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony Romero</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-rosenquist/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Rosenquist</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/pete-rozelle/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Pete Rozelle</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/bill-russell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Bill Russell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/albie-sachs/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Albie Sachs</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/oliver-sacks-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Oliver Sacks, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jonas-salk-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jonas Salk, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frederick-sanger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frederick Sanger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/george-b-schaller-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George B. Schaller, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/barry-scheck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Barry Scheck</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/richard-evans-schultes-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/general-h-norman-schwarzkopf/"><span class="achiever-list-name">General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/stephen-schwarzman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen A. Schwarzman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/glenn-t-seaborg-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/neil-sheehan/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Neil Sheehan</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/admiral-alan-shepard-jr/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ellen-johnson-sirleaf/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ellen Johnson Sirleaf</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-slim/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Slim Helú</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frederick-w-smith/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frederick W. Smith</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/stephen-sondheim/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen Sondheim</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sonia-sotomayor/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sonia Sotomayor</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wole-soyinka/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wole Soyinka</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/esperanza-spalding/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Esperanza Spalding</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/martha-stewart/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Martha Stewart</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190102100658/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/admiral-james-b-stockdale/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral James B. 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