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[crowd cheering]
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[Lindsay] The 2015 All-Star Game is
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at the Great American Ball Park
in Cincinnati,
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and I am watching it with my grandfather.
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The opening ceremony features
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the four greatest living baseball players,
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as determined by 25 million fan votes.
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[commentator]
These four men were selected by fans
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across all of Major League Baseball.
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{\an8}- [Lindsay] So out comes Hank Aaron...
- Hank Aaron.
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{\an8}-...Johnny Bench...
- Johnny Bench.
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{\an8}-...Sandy Koufax...
- Sandy Koufax.
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{\an8}...and Willie Mays.
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[Lindsay] Who were all absolutely
amazing players in their own right,
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but I'm in the room
sitting next to my grandfather,
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Yogi Berra.
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And I'm thinking:
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"Wait a second. He's got more MVPs
than any of these guys.
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He's won more World Series rings
than all four of them combined."
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And I look at him
and I said, "Are you dead?"
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And he said, "Not yet."
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Objectively speaking,
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I don't know how 25 million baseball fans
could leave him off of that list.
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[commentator]
You know who he is. He's Yogi.
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{\an8}[Maddon] To have Yogi not included
in the greatest living players of 2015...
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{\an8}That makes no sense to me whatsoever.
I don't quite understand that.
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[commentator]
He's pounded out 67 World Series hits.
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[Maddon] Come on.
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[commentator]
He's in his 68th World Series game.
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- There's one. It is going... Gone!
- [crowd cheering]
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Come on. Come on.
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[commentator] Yogi Berra...
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[Appel] There are only two people
with more than 350 home runs
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{\an8}and fewer than 500 strikeouts
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{\an8}in the whole history
of Major League Baseball,
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and their names are Joe DiMaggio
and Yogi Berra.
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It just really kind of cemented home
in my mind
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how overlooked he became as a player
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and how much that personality of his,
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that became
so much bigger than baseball...
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- Mr. Yogi Berra. Yogi!
- [cheering]
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...actually served to take away
from his legacy as a baseball player.
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[commentator]
A high drive. That's trouble.
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- Do you ever hit home runs?
- [in high-pitched voice] Sometimes.
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{\an8}[audience laughing]
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[Lindsay]
I realize that I'm inherently biased
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because Yogi Berra is,
after all, my grandfather,
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but I believe, as the years went by,
Yogi Berra became a cultural icon.
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Maybe it's that punching bag of a face.
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Maybe it's the Yogi-isms
that really are true.
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"It ain't over until it's over."
We all know that.
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"It isn't over till it's over."
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Yogi Berra once said, "When you come
to a fork in the road, take it."
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"We may be lost,
but we're making good time."
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[reporter] You're probably best known
in America for your Yogi-isms.
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Oh, boy.
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[Lindsay] So how on earth is he overlooked
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and not included as one
of baseball's greatest living players?
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{\an8}He may be overlooked,
but he certainly wasn't overlooked
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{\an8}by the people who know
what they're looking at in baseball.
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[commentator] He slams it
over the scoreboard in right field
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for the first pinch-hit home run
in World Series history.
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{\an8}For me, Yogi Berra is
the greatest of all catchers.
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{\an8}He has one of the greatest
World Series résumés of any player ever.
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[commentator] Got him!
The greatest game ever pitched...
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{\an8}Yogi was representing, not the big guys,
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{\an8}but he was representing us,
the stickball kids in the street.
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[Billy] He was a giant.
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{\an8}I mean, he was the most overlooked
superstar in the history of baseball.
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[in deep voice] "I'm not a cartoon.
You know, they made me a cartoon."
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[Narrator] Yogi Bear!
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{\an8}Man, I only saw the cartoon side of Yogi.
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{\an8}Right? I mean, he's a figure
that was larger than life.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[upbeat music playing]
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{\an8}Yogi Berra is the American League's
most valuable ballplayer.
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{\an8}He is also one of baseball's
most popular figures.
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{\an8}This despite the fact Yogi is an awfully
tough man when the chips are down,
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{\an8}either behind the plate
or when he's up there with a bat.
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Yogi grew up in St. Louis,
became a Yankee when he was 20.
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And he's been hitting home runs
with considerable regularity ever since.
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Uh, Yogi, did your parents encourage you
to become a ballplayer?
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No, they didn't, Ed. Uh...
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I've got a funny story
to tell you about that.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Yogi] Back there on The Hill,
we played ball all the time.
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Us kids,
we played every darn day, you know.
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We played
with a bottle cap and broomsticks.
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If I swung hard, I would swing and miss.
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And one strike, you were out.
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And I think that would help me a lot,
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you know, playing that bottle cap
'cause that was pretty tough to hit.
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{\an8}Yogi Berra is not
my grandfather's real name.
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{\an8}It is Lorenzo Pietro, Lawrence Peter.
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He grew up
in the Italian section of St. Louis
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that used to be called Dago Hill.
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["Dago Hill Blues" playing]
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Now known simply as The Hill.
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They were very poor as immigrants,
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and he was very accustomed
to hearing "dago," "wop,"
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all the derogatory terms for Italians.
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{\an8}His father was, uh, you know, old-school,
and they had to work.
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His brother Tony, who they called "Lefty,"
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he was a tremendous ballplayer too.
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{\an8}They were all great athletes,
so it's something they had to give up.
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{\an8}Tony was a tremendous athlete.
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{\an8}Mike was a good athlete.
They were all good baseball players.
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{\an8}They wanted to see
somebody get out there and play
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{\an8}and do what they felt
like they really wanted to do.
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{\an8}[Dale] If work coincided with a game,
Papa Berra made him go to work.
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{\an8}And he'd have to leave work
or sneak out of work to get to the game,
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so Papa Berra didn't find out
he left work.
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[Yogi] Kind of skipped work a little bit.
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And I said, "I'm gonna play
in the big leagues one of these days."
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Where could you go and work three hours
and make that kind of money?
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{\an8}And then I got a chance
to play American Legion ball.
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{\an8}[Dale]
They had no benches in the sandlots.
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So they sat on the ground.
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And Dad would cross his legs
and cross his arms
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and sit like this
on the ground between innings.
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[Yogi]
Bobby Hofman played with the Giants.
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We played
on the same American Legion team.
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And I was sitting on the ground
with my legs crossed
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and my arms crossed.
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He says, "You look like a yogi."
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That stuck.
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{\an8}His three older brothers
kind of ganged up on Grandpa Pietro
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and convinced him to let Grandpa Yogi
have a chance as a ballplayer.
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They allowed him to go away
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if Dad would send home his paycheck.
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[Garagiola] This is 5446.
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This is where I live.
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Right across the street is 5447.
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{\an8}That's where Mr. Berra lived.
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{\an8}So how long have I known Yogi?
I can't remember not ever knowing Yogi.
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In fact, I think
he's the first guy I ever saw.
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Which, of course, brings up another thing.
How good a ballplayer was I?
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Most guys,
when they go to the big leagues,
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they're either the best player in school
or the best player in the neighborhood.
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With Yogi living over there,
I wasn't even the best player on my block.
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[Dale] The Cardinals had a tryout,
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and everybody in the neighborhood knew
that Dad was the best ballplayer.
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{\an8}I guess he just didn't look
like a great ballplayer.
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{\an8}[Bobby] You know, Garagiola got $500
to sign with the Cardinals.
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{\an8}And they offered Yogi 250.
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{\an8}And Yogi got mad.
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He thought he ought to get
just exactly what Joey got.
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{\an8}[Edward] Yogi, uh,
Branch Rickey is an old friend,
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{\an8}and I seem to remember him telling me
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{\an8}that you and he were once almost
in a business deal. Is that right?
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Well, Ed, this is what happened in 1942,
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when, uh, he was still general manager
of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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But in a couple of days,
he was moving over to Brooklyn.
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And, uh, he told me--
I was working out with the club.
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He said I'd never be
a big-league ballplayer.
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All I would be is
a Minor League ballplayer.
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[Lindsay] Branch Rickey said
Yogi was too clumsy and too slow.
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Yogi was crushed.
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But we later, you know,
learned that Branch Rickey had a plan.
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{\an8}Rickey knew he was leaving the Cardinals
to go to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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{\an8}["Largo al Factotum" playing]
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He also knew if he didn't offer Yogi
what his pal Joey got,
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Yogi was probably not going to sign.
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Figuring, "As soon
as I get over to Brooklyn,
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I'm right back in there
and I'm signing Yogi,
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and now he's playing for me
and not the Cardinals."
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And the only thing
that upset that apple cart was...
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It was too late.
I already signed with the Yankees.
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[Garagiola Jr.] The Yankees got there
in between St. Louis and Brooklyn.
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[song ends]
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Are your parents
baseball fans now, Yogi?
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Well, my dad's
a pretty good baseball fan now, Ed.
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[Edward chuckles]
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Yogi, you took part in D-Day, didn't you?
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Well, I was only a kid at 18 years old
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when I made the Normandy invasion, uh, Ed.
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{\an8}During World War II,
if you're an able-bodied young person,
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{\an8}you signed up
or you enlisted into the service.
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Yogi was playing in the lower levels
of the Yankee Minor Leagues.
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He was at Norfolk,
where the big Naval base was.
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[Lindsay] He enlists
before he has a chance to be drafted.
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So he volunteers
to join the Navy for World War II.
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And then he volunteers again
for what the Navy was calling
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"a secret mission,"
which was the rocket boats.
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Yogi was a big, big fan of comic books.
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He thought it had something
to do with Buck Rogers.
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[lively music plays]
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But, ultimately,
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it was really, uh,
preparing for the invasion of Normandy.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Yogi] Couldn't write home,
tell them what I was doing.
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We were the first ones in,
before the Army come in.
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It's amazing
what that little boat could do though.
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We could shoot one at a time,
we could shoot two at a time,
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or we could shoot all 24 at a time.
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We did pretty good.
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[Larry]
In that landing, he was right there.
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All those bullets
and everything you see in that landing,
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he was offshore.
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He didn't know how to swim.
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There were six or seven guys on his boat,
and they all got hit.
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[Yogi] I stayed on the water for ten days.
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I wasn't scared when going into it.
It looked like 4th of July.
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[Dale] The next day,
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his job was pulling
the bloated bodies out of the water
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after the beach was secured.
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And he talked about how that was the worst
and toughest experience of his life.
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Baseball ain't hard.
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You know, war is hard.
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[announcer] This is New York,
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rich in the promise of a bright tomorrow.
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[Dale]
So after my dad got out of the service,
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they took him into the Yankee clubhouse
to show him around,
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and he still had his sailor's uniform on.
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One of the guys said:
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"That's the Berra kid
that they're talking about?
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He don't look much like a ballplayer."
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{\an8}And Pete Sheehy,
the longtime Yankee clubhouse man,
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{\an8}said he took one look at Dad
in his sailor's uniform,
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said, "He don't look much
like a sailor either."
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[Vin] First of all, he wasn't 6-foot-3,
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{\an8}210 pounds of pure gold with blond hair,
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{\an8}et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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{\an8}He was Yogi.
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Everything about him was kind of funny.
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{\an8}If you look at the early photography,
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{\an8}the early baseball cards of Berra,
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{\an8}he is a strange-looking man.
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{\an8}Yoda-like.
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{\an8}Not attractive.
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[Roger] Everything about Yogi was round.
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{\an8}The rounded shoulders, the...
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{\an8}I mean, he was...
The whole structure was circular.
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[Dave] You have to understand, too,
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the Yankees,
they were almost like America's Team.
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There was a look, an elegance about them,
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with Joe DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich.
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So when Yogi comes to the team,
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you've got this 5-foot-7,
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awkward-looking,
kind of talked a little funny as well...
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You know, he...
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They say,
"He doesn't look like a Yankee."
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[John] He was a very unlikely prospect.
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He was short. He was squat.
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Nobody thinks this guy can play,
until you put him out there.
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[commentator] And it's time to play ball.
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[Lindsay] Grandpa makes
his big-league debut in September of 1946.
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And when Joe DiMaggio sees him, he says:
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"Who's this guy?
He looks like a fire hydrant."
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Everyone said
he didn't look like a Yankee.
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His own manager, Bucky Harris,
called him "The Ape."
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{\an8}The media said he looked
like a Neanderthal and a gargoyle.
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{\an8}[commentator]
And it brings up the catcher Yogi Berra.
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{\an8}[Lindsay] And I think he went on to prove
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{\an8}that it didn't really matter
what you looked like.
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Because as soon as he got up to the plate,
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he silenced all of the critics
with his bat.
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[commentator] Berra swings,
and that one's gonna leave the ballpark.
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Well, what do you know?
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Larry Berra, they call him Yogi,
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his very first time at the Major Leagues
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and what does he do?
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He hits a home run.
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[crowd cheering]
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[Lindsay] Grandpa hits a home run
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in his first game
in the big leagues, which is...
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You know, doesn't happen very often,
kind of unheard of,
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and then he hits a second
in his second game.
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[commentator] Yogi's blast sails
over the right-field fence...
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[Lindsay] And he rounds the bases
and comes back to the dugout,
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and Joe DiMaggio is sitting
on the bench, staring at him.
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And Grandpa's staring back
at Joe DiMaggio,
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and he says,
"What? I can hit homers too."
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{\an8}Well, I mean,
first memories of Yogi Berra
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{\an8}was watching him play on television.
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He was a left-hand hitter.
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I could just see him taking that long bat
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and hitting it over the right-field fence
into Bedford Avenue at Ebbets Field.
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[commentator[ Berra connects,
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and the ball goes high and far
over the right-field wall.
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[Torre] He was such a good hitter
and such an unorthodox hitter.
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You know, his hits,
probably half the time,
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were on pitches that weren't strikes.
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{\an8}You know, he just basically
looked for something
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that looked good to him
and he swung at it.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Yogi] I had fun. It's a fun game to me.
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The fun of the game is hitting.
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He had these amazing, like, meat-hook,
gigantic hands that were super fast,
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which is another reason he was able
to put the bat on so many
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what everyone else called "bad pitches."
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{\an8}Great, great hands. Great ability
to know where the end of the bat was.
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That's what Yogi was really good at.
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He knew where the end
of the bat was every time.
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And that's why they said
he was such a good bad-ball hitter.
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Look at the old videos, man.
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[Yogi] Sometimes a pitcher gives away
their pitches to a hitter.
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If you're paying close attention
to the pitcher,
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you could come down so far for a fastball,
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come down lower for a curveball.
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You watch it.
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[commentator]
Then Yogi hits one out into right field.
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[Roger] He hit with power,
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and the amazing thing was,
almost never struck out.
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{\an8}He swung at everything. That's the key.
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{\an8}Can't strike out
if you don't get two strikes.
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{\an8}If you don't get to two strikes.
Yogi swung at everything.
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{\an8}He's probably one of the best
bad-ball hitters there was in the game.
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{\an8}Well, I think that's not exactly true.
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{\an8}What it is, instead of a bad-ball hitter,
he could hit a good ball,
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{\an8}but he could also hit a ball
that was up or outside.
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[Yogi]
I could hit the ball the other way too.
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If he threw a curveball,
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{\an8}-he's not gonna fool me.
- [commentator] No balls, two strikes.
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{\an8}[Yogi]
Two strikes, I always guard the plate.
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{\an8}Then there's some pitchers out there,
don't care what he threw, I could hit it.
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{\an8}[Roger] He would slash at something
that was way out of the strike zone,
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{\an8}so, in effect, what he is doing
is abolishing the strike zone.
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[pensive music playing]
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{\an8}To put the ball in play
at different quadrants of the zone,
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{\an8}it's unheard of, really.
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You don't see guys do that nowadays,
but he was so strong.
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It's phenomenal
because it's the art of hitting.
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[commentator] Berra swings,
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and there's a drive
going deep into right field.
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Going back is Carl Furillo.
That ball is over the wall for a home run.
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Yogi was a tremendous clutch hitter.
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He was probably one of the hitters
that the opposition hated
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to see him come up with men on base.
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And especially in the late innings.
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That was when he was particularly good.
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[Whitey]
It was amazing how that last at-bat,
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{\an8}when the game's on the line
or they got a one-run lead,
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{\an8}he's gonna hit a line drive.
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[commentator] The count is two strikes
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when Yogi Berra slams one
down the right-field line.
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His second homer of the series.
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[Lindsay] One time, a reporter asked him
if all the bad things
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people said about his looks bothered him.
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He just brushed it off and said:
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"Nah, in this racket,
all you've gotta do is hit the ball,
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and I've never heard
of anybody hitting it with his face."
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People really liked him
because he was affable
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and he was fun to listen to
and fun to be around,
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but that sort of became
who Yogi Berra was,
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this funny, little guy.
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Because the media tended
to view Yogi as a clown,
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he was made fun of in the New York press.
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They took advantage of him
to create a persona
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with which he was only
too willing to subscribe.
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{\an8}Yogi was a little different.
He was a character.
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{\an8}And people like that,
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{\an8}but sometimes
the writers would go a little too far
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in making fun of him.
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[Edward] Yogi, you take a lot of ribbing.
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Does it ever get under your skin?
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Not at all, Ed.
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There's an old saying in baseball.
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"If the ballplayers kid you,
they like you.
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If they don't kid you,
they don't like you."
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Does this kidding
ever bother you, Mrs. Berra?
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{\an8}No, it doesn't.
He's a pretty good bench jockey himself.
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{\an8}[chuckles]
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{\an8}Mrs. Berra, do you call
your husband Yogi too?
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Yes, I do, Mr. Murrow,
although I feel a little guilty about it.
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I feel that I should call him Larry,
but we have a son named Larry also,
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and, uh, I feel that it's easier
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to distinguish between the two
by calling him Yogi.
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[Edward] Mm-hm.
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["Someone Like Me" playing]
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♪ Just an average guy... ♪
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[Lindsay] My Grammy Carmen
grew up on a farm in Missouri,
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but when she was a teenager,
she came to St. Louis,
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and she was waiting tables
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in a restaurant
on The Hill called Biggie's.
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This was an expensive restaurant.
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And my grandfather used to drag
Joe Garagiola there at lunchtime,
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and they would go sit at the bar
and they would drink glasses of water,
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and Grandpa would basically stare
at Grammy Carmen.
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{\an8}Finally, Joe said, "Hey, Yogi,
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{\an8}what's going on here with this Biggie's?
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I'm gonna be broke by Christmas.
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I can't keep eating at this place."
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[Yogi] I was shy.
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I thought she was a nice-looking girl,
and, you know, I'm not that good-looking.
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And I'd kind of taken a liking to her.
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It was love at first sight. It was.
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I actually asked Biggie,
the owner of the restaurant,
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to introduce me, to ask if she wanted
to go out with me, you know.
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[Carmen]
I liked him. He was a little different.
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All the other boys I dated were tall,
handsome, 6-foot-4 fellows.
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{\an8}This is what he told us.
I'll never forget.
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{\an8}We were all sitting around and he said:
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{\an8}"I looked at her and said,
'That's the woman I'm gonna marry.'"
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{\an8}Right? And everybody teased him and said,
"You'll never get somebody that pretty."
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- Yeah. See?
- They all teased him
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that he would never
get anybody that pretty.
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And she fell for him.
He was a sweetheart.
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Well, I thought he was kind of cute.
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He was better-looking then than he is now.
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[both laugh]
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I went after him, really.
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He didn't have a chance.
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[Carmen and Yogi chuckle]
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[Lindsay]
When my grandparents had just met,
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he used to write my grandmother
old-fashioned love letters.
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And they're very sappy and very sweet,
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and the best way to illustrate
is to just read one.
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"Dearest darling, received your letter
and was very happy to have received it.
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Glad to hear everything with you is fine.
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As for me, I am just fine,
and I hope I stay that way.
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Darling, I love you very, very much.
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I will always love you as long as I live.
There will never be another girl but you.
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I love you, darling, more than ever.
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I mean that.
I love you. I love you. I love you.
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I love you always and always."
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But my favorite thing is that now and then
he throws in a tidbit, like:
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"I went 3-for-4 today."
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[announcer]
The New York Yankees reporting for play
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at St. Petersburg, Florida,
with manager Casey Stengel.
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[upbeat music playing]
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{\an8}Catcher Yogi Berra and Coach Bill Dickey
have the right idea.
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{\an8}No winter storytelling here,
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but signals
for certain service in the summer.
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[Yogi] I never caught until I turned pro.
I was a lousy catcher.
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[chuckles]
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Till they got Bill Dickey there.
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[commentator] Both Reese and Robinson
score on a passed ball.
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Here it is, Yogi.
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[Yogi] He really worked me, boy.
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[percussion music playing]
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{\an8}Bill Dickey did drills
with his catchers at Spring Training,
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{\an8}and it was the cruelest drill
I've ever seen.
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He would stand on home plate,
put the catchers at the backstop,
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and hit line drives in the dirt,
to the left, to the right,
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and Yogi never got tired, never quit.
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But it made him a much better catcher
'cause he worked very hard.
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[John] Bill Dickey set the bar
by playing in 100 games
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13 seasons in a row.
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When Yogi became the catcher,
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he was catching 150 games a year.
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[Maddon]
Yogi Berra caught 117 doubleheaders,
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both sides of these games.
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{\an8}And as somebody
that did it a couple times,
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{\an8}I want you to know that
that is absolutely ridiculous.
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{\an8}A hundred and seventeen doubleheaders
he caught.
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{\an8}That's unbelievable. That is...
That's unfathomable today.
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Being Yogi Berra behind the dish,
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I'm feeling pretty good
about my chances, right?
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[John] It was a preposterous amount
of energy and durability.
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Yogi was a physical specimen,
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and because he was
so low to the ground,
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which today we regard
as an amazing deficit,
456
00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:58,669
it was something of an advantage to him
457
00:22:58,669 --> 00:23:01,589
because he was so quick in the infield.
458
00:23:01,589 --> 00:23:04,550
[commentator] Cox attempts to sacrifice
both runners along,
459
00:23:04,550 --> 00:23:08,179
and Hodges is called out at third
on the force play.
460
00:23:08,179 --> 00:23:11,015
[Yogi] And everybody tells me,
"Oh, you're so short."
461
00:23:11,015 --> 00:23:14,477
I said, "Well, I make a good target.
I don't have to bend down so far."
462
00:23:15,311 --> 00:23:17,647
I'm in the strike zone all the time.
463
00:23:17,647 --> 00:23:20,525
[commentator] Here's the pitch,
and Sisler goes down swinging.
464
00:23:20,525 --> 00:23:25,446
When he settled in as a catcher,
with Bill Dickey's help in 1949,
465
00:23:25,446 --> 00:23:30,451
he memorably said that Dickey
was learning him all his experience.
466
00:23:30,451 --> 00:23:32,078
And he made me work, boy.
467
00:23:32,078 --> 00:23:35,706
He used to tell the teams
when we'd play, "Steal on Yogi."
468
00:23:35,706 --> 00:23:37,458
[commentator]
Here's a throw into the plate,
469
00:23:37,458 --> 00:23:38,709
and the runner is out at home.
470
00:23:40,545 --> 00:23:42,755
I remember one time
a foul ball went right here
471
00:23:42,755 --> 00:23:44,507
and shattered the whole bar.
472
00:23:44,507 --> 00:23:45,925
That's the velocity of that pitch.
473
00:23:45,925 --> 00:23:48,386
He had a little cut,
but he went right back out and played.
474
00:23:48,386 --> 00:23:50,763
{\an8}[Yogi]
I had a lot of fun catching. I really did.
475
00:23:50,763 --> 00:23:52,682
{\an8}You get to talk to everybody.
476
00:23:52,682 --> 00:23:56,310
{\an8}[man] You talk to the batters a lot, Yogi.
What do you say to them?
477
00:23:56,310 --> 00:23:58,354
- [Yogi] Try to help them.
- [man] Help them?
478
00:23:58,354 --> 00:24:00,606
- The guys you wanna beat?
- Sure. I tell them:
479
00:24:00,606 --> 00:24:02,859
"Watch out for the pitcher.
He's a little wild."
480
00:24:02,859 --> 00:24:05,361
Or, "It's hard to see the ball
because of the white shirt."
481
00:24:05,361 --> 00:24:07,530
- Helpful things.
- Yeah.
482
00:24:07,530 --> 00:24:09,490
[commentator] Strike two. Fastball.
483
00:24:09,490 --> 00:24:14,162
{\an8}Yogi knew the hitters very, very well.
484
00:24:14,162 --> 00:24:17,206
{\an8}I mean, he really knew
what their weakness was.
485
00:24:17,206 --> 00:24:19,417
And if a hitter had a weakness,
486
00:24:19,417 --> 00:24:23,337
I mean, he fed it to him constantly.
487
00:24:23,337 --> 00:24:26,257
Yeah, till they proved to him
that they could hit it.
488
00:24:27,175 --> 00:24:28,843
[Yogi] I watched hitters. I really did.
489
00:24:28,843 --> 00:24:30,052
I studied hitters.
490
00:24:30,052 --> 00:24:34,473
If I see a guy diving in,
that ball's coming inside. I don't care.
491
00:24:35,641 --> 00:24:39,103
There's no question
that the catcher runs the show
492
00:24:39,103 --> 00:24:40,897
back from behind the plate.
493
00:24:40,897 --> 00:24:43,733
He basically puts the puzzle together.
494
00:24:43,733 --> 00:24:46,694
He's the one
that's putting the fingers down.
495
00:24:46,694 --> 00:24:48,446
[Nick]
Catchers are 100% like quarterbacks.
496
00:24:48,446 --> 00:24:51,073
One, they gotta know everything
that's going on.
497
00:24:51,073 --> 00:24:54,076
Number two,
they have to be able to call a game.
498
00:24:54,076 --> 00:24:57,455
You need to know the strength
of every hitter coming up to the plate,
499
00:24:57,455 --> 00:24:59,498
as well as the strength of your pitcher,
500
00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:01,876
as well as the positioning
of your players on the field.
501
00:25:01,876 --> 00:25:03,920
That's why a lot of catchers
become managers.
502
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,714
You have to know everything
that's going on.
503
00:25:06,714 --> 00:25:10,343
And now they have the hot and cold maps
of hitters coming up,
504
00:25:10,343 --> 00:25:13,721
because they're saying that's too much
information to keep in one brain.
505
00:25:13,721 --> 00:25:16,557
But for Yogi Berra,
that was a walk in the park.
506
00:25:17,308 --> 00:25:21,229
[man] When you walk out to talk
to the pitcher, what do you talk about?
507
00:25:21,229 --> 00:25:24,106
The main thing, you go out there
and try and ease the pitcher.
508
00:25:24,106 --> 00:25:26,651
He knows what kind of trouble
he's in already.
509
00:25:26,651 --> 00:25:29,278
But, uh, I go out and tell him:
510
00:25:29,278 --> 00:25:31,280
"Well, you wanna go
to the movies tonight?"
511
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,366
Or, "What kind of date
you got for tonight?"
512
00:25:33,366 --> 00:25:35,534
And you try and ease his mind.
513
00:25:36,118 --> 00:25:37,245
{\an8}[Girardi] I've always thought
514
00:25:37,245 --> 00:25:40,456
{\an8}the relationship a pitcher
and catcher have to have is,
515
00:25:40,456 --> 00:25:42,917
{\an8}the pitcher needs to know
that you'll do whatever it takes
516
00:25:42,917 --> 00:25:45,419
{\an8}to get him through seven innings,
no matter what.
517
00:25:45,419 --> 00:25:47,922
You'll stand on your head.
You'll dive for balls.
518
00:25:47,922 --> 00:25:52,218
You'll take balls off your neck.
Whatever it takes, you're there for him.
519
00:25:52,843 --> 00:25:55,596
[commentator] Here's the throw to Berra
to the plate, and Hamner's out.
520
00:25:55,596 --> 00:25:59,809
[Girardi] When you prepare as a catcher,
pitchers trust you, right?
521
00:25:59,809 --> 00:26:01,852
They know, "He knows something.
522
00:26:01,852 --> 00:26:04,730
All I gotta do is execute
the pitch he calls,
523
00:26:04,730 --> 00:26:06,190
and I'm gonna be okay."
524
00:26:06,190 --> 00:26:08,943
[commentator]
They win the final game, 5 to 2,
525
00:26:08,943 --> 00:26:12,238
to remain
the baseball champions of the world.
526
00:26:12,238 --> 00:26:15,032
You know, I go back to 1956.
527
00:26:15,032 --> 00:26:18,202
I was, as a, you know, 16-year-old,
528
00:26:18,202 --> 00:26:20,079
I was sitting in the bleachers.
529
00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:24,500
I guess I was pulling for the Dodgers.
I was a National League fan.
530
00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:27,586
And then about the sixth inning,
I started pulling for the Yankees
531
00:26:27,586 --> 00:26:30,339
because you knew that, uh...
532
00:26:30,339 --> 00:26:33,509
{\an8}That Larsen had something special going.
533
00:26:33,509 --> 00:26:34,677
[commentator 1] Strike one.
534
00:26:34,677 --> 00:26:37,305
{\an8}[commentator 2] Don Larsen
must have really studied Mr. Maglie
535
00:26:37,305 --> 00:26:39,348
'cause he's got the blueprint.
536
00:26:39,348 --> 00:26:40,474
[commentator 1] Strike two.
537
00:26:40,474 --> 00:26:43,144
[commentator 3] Not a Dodger had reached
first base off Don Larsen,
538
00:26:43,144 --> 00:26:44,937
the big right-hander from California.
539
00:26:44,937 --> 00:26:47,440
Over the years,
watching certain players,
540
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:52,194
I could see that Yogi had the ability
of elevating these players.
541
00:26:52,194 --> 00:26:56,407
Let's just take Don Larsen, for instance.
Don had a losing career in baseball.
542
00:26:56,407 --> 00:26:58,326
He lost more games than he won.
543
00:26:58,326 --> 00:27:02,163
Yet, at that time, Yogi was able
to bring the most out of him,
544
00:27:02,163 --> 00:27:05,833
so that people are still remembering
that perfect game in baseball.
545
00:27:05,833 --> 00:27:08,836
[Larsen] I didn't know I was gonna pitch
until I came to the clubhouse.
546
00:27:09,628 --> 00:27:11,839
{\an8}I was shaking a little bit. Quite a bit.
547
00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:13,632
[commentator]
You can feel it in the crowd.
548
00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:15,718
Tense, breathless.
549
00:27:15,718 --> 00:27:19,638
When Larsen comes out for the ninth,
still no Dodger has reached first base.
550
00:27:19,638 --> 00:27:21,390
This is more than a no-hitter.
551
00:27:21,390 --> 00:27:24,643
Everything Yogi called for,
I threw close to where he wanted it.
552
00:27:24,643 --> 00:27:28,522
{\an8}Don Larsen never shook him off
once in 97 pitches.
553
00:27:28,522 --> 00:27:31,025
[commentator]
Don Larsen is spinning quite a web today.
554
00:27:31,025 --> 00:27:33,444
He's retired 16 men in a row.
555
00:27:33,444 --> 00:27:36,489
[Bob] He called a game
because he intuitively knew
556
00:27:36,489 --> 00:27:40,076
what would work and not work
against certain hitters.
557
00:27:40,076 --> 00:27:41,744
[Mel] An accidental swing.
558
00:27:42,912 --> 00:27:45,498
And here's Vin Scully
to carry on the rest of the way.
559
00:27:45,498 --> 00:27:47,458
[Vin] Thank you, Mel. Hi, everybody.
560
00:27:47,458 --> 00:27:51,045
I think it was Yogi who took this man
561
00:27:51,045 --> 00:27:53,589
and after, like, the fourth inning,
562
00:27:53,589 --> 00:27:57,385
started to mold him into,
"Hey, you gotta concentrate now."
563
00:27:57,385 --> 00:27:59,595
[Yogi] He had great control that day.
564
00:27:59,595 --> 00:28:02,181
[commentator]
Strike two on a beautiful change-up curve.
565
00:28:02,181 --> 00:28:05,935
- [Yogi] Fastball, curveball, slider...
- [commentator] Down he goes.
566
00:28:05,935 --> 00:28:08,604
He got it over in the right spots.
567
00:28:08,604 --> 00:28:11,107
[commentator 1]
Two out in the ninth, still not a hit.
568
00:28:11,107 --> 00:28:13,275
[commentator 2]
I think it would be safe to say
569
00:28:13,275 --> 00:28:16,445
{\an8}that no man in the history of baseball
570
00:28:16,445 --> 00:28:19,782
{\an8}has ever come up to home plate
in a more dramatic moment.
571
00:28:19,782 --> 00:28:21,909
[commentator 3]
Only one man now blocks Larsen
572
00:28:21,909 --> 00:28:24,495
from the greatest pitching achievement
of all time.
573
00:28:24,495 --> 00:28:26,414
{\an8}And that man is Dale Mitchell.
574
00:28:26,414 --> 00:28:30,167
[Dale] Mom was sitting in the stands
with Whitey Ford's wife.
575
00:28:30,668 --> 00:28:31,710
[commentator 1] Strike one.
576
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,798
And, of course,
my mom was pregnant at the time.
577
00:28:36,465 --> 00:28:37,466
[commentator 1] Strike.
578
00:28:39,510 --> 00:28:44,932
She said, "If we get this guy out,
I'm naming my child Dale."
579
00:28:44,932 --> 00:28:47,601
- And sure enough...
- [commentator 2] Here it comes.
580
00:28:47,601 --> 00:28:50,813
Strike three! A perfect game.
581
00:28:50,813 --> 00:28:52,606
Not a man reaches first base.
582
00:28:52,606 --> 00:28:55,609
No one has ever done this
in World Series history.
583
00:28:55,609 --> 00:28:57,736
[dramatic music playing]
584
00:28:57,736 --> 00:28:58,654
Where do you start?
585
00:28:58,654 --> 00:29:02,283
[commentator] Larsen's achievement
was an outstanding individual effort.
586
00:29:02,283 --> 00:29:04,618
That really should be
not the Larsen perfect game.
587
00:29:04,618 --> 00:29:06,704
It should be
the Larsen-Berra perfect game.
588
00:29:07,329 --> 00:29:09,999
Larsen has pitched the perfect game,
but it's Yogi
589
00:29:09,999 --> 00:29:12,418
who runs out and jumps into his arms.
590
00:29:13,085 --> 00:29:15,045
[John] We go through our entire lives...
591
00:29:15,045 --> 00:29:16,797
Even someone as old as I am,
592
00:29:16,797 --> 00:29:19,383
we go through our entire lives
as big kids.
593
00:29:19,383 --> 00:29:20,926
Inside, we're kids.
594
00:29:20,926 --> 00:29:23,971
And when Yogi leaps on Larsen,
595
00:29:25,055 --> 00:29:28,058
what he's doing is he's acting
the way he would have
596
00:29:28,767 --> 00:29:32,354
on Dago Hill when he was 12 years old.
597
00:29:32,354 --> 00:29:35,566
[Bob] It's a kid's game.
I don't think he ever lost sight of that.
598
00:29:35,566 --> 00:29:39,445
And that was one of many things
that endeared him to people.
599
00:29:39,445 --> 00:29:42,823
♪ B-O-M-B-E-R-S ♪
600
00:29:42,823 --> 00:29:46,744
♪ Here they come now
The marvelous Bronx Bombers... ♪
601
00:29:46,744 --> 00:29:48,370
[commentator] Strike three called.
602
00:29:50,164 --> 00:29:52,291
[Lindsay]
Yogi has one of the greatest combinations
603
00:29:52,291 --> 00:29:54,084
of personal and team accomplishments
604
00:29:54,084 --> 00:29:55,503
in the history of baseball.
605
00:29:56,879 --> 00:30:02,718
In 1950, he batted .322
with 28 home runs, 124 RBIs,
606
00:30:02,718 --> 00:30:05,638
and only 12 strikeouts.
607
00:30:05,638 --> 00:30:07,806
That's un-- Twelve strikeouts, bro?
608
00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:10,184
I don't even think
I did that in Wiffle ball.
609
00:30:10,184 --> 00:30:15,022
[Andy] Typically, there's a correlation
between strikeout rate and home-run rate.
610
00:30:15,022 --> 00:30:19,693
{\an8}And it's amazing to think
that Yogi Berra strikes out 12 times
611
00:30:19,693 --> 00:30:22,696
{\an8}in a full-time year like that,
where he hit 28 home runs.
612
00:30:22,696 --> 00:30:25,866
You don't see that anymore,
and I'll go out on a limb
613
00:30:25,866 --> 00:30:28,244
and predict you're never
gonna see that again.
614
00:30:28,244 --> 00:30:32,331
[Lindsay] For the next seven seasons,
from 1950 to 1956,
615
00:30:32,331 --> 00:30:35,501
he won three MVPs, finished second twice,
616
00:30:35,501 --> 00:30:37,503
third once and fourth once.
617
00:30:37,503 --> 00:30:41,340
{\an8}If that doesn't tell you
he was a main anchor,
618
00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:44,468
{\an8}a cog in that Yankee team, nothing will.
619
00:30:44,468 --> 00:30:47,096
I mean, he was it. Yogi was the guy.
620
00:30:47,096 --> 00:30:50,266
[commentator] And look at Berra,
piggyback-riding Bob Kuzava.
621
00:30:50,266 --> 00:30:53,185
The Yankees,
for the fourth consecutive time...
622
00:30:53,185 --> 00:30:56,438
Between 1949 and 1964,
623
00:30:56,438 --> 00:31:00,109
the Yankees won 12 pennants in 14 seasons.
624
00:31:00,109 --> 00:31:02,403
And between '49 and '53,
625
00:31:02,403 --> 00:31:05,614
they won the World Series every time,
five years in a row.
626
00:31:05,614 --> 00:31:08,576
[commentator]
Fifth consecutive world championship.
627
00:31:08,576 --> 00:31:13,080
Then they turned around
and went back in '55, '56, '57, and '58.
628
00:31:13,747 --> 00:31:15,207
So go figure, how good is that?
629
00:31:15,207 --> 00:31:18,502
That's, if my math is correct,
nine times in ten tries.
630
00:31:18,502 --> 00:31:21,505
[Lindsay] During that seven-year stretch
from '50 to '56,
631
00:31:21,505 --> 00:31:23,716
he was not only
the backbone of a Yankees team
632
00:31:23,716 --> 00:31:26,135
that won five World Series rings,
633
00:31:26,135 --> 00:31:29,597
he also averaged .295 with 27 home runs,
634
00:31:29,597 --> 00:31:34,101
108 RBIs,
and just 24 strikeouts per season.
635
00:31:34,101 --> 00:31:36,645
[commentator]
There's a drive hit deep to right field,
636
00:31:36,645 --> 00:31:40,190
but it is going to go
all the way for a home run!
637
00:31:40,190 --> 00:31:45,696
{\an8}[Lindsay] The four greatest living players
from 2015 averaged 1.5 MVP awards,
638
00:31:45,696 --> 00:31:50,034
{\an8}17.5 All-Star appearances,
and two World Series wins.
639
00:31:50,034 --> 00:31:53,203
{\an8}There is no doubt
that Yogi belongs in their company,
640
00:31:53,203 --> 00:31:59,043
{\an8}with three MVPs, 18 All-Star appearances,
and ten World Series wins.
641
00:31:59,043 --> 00:32:02,296
Hey, he got it done. He was a winner
'cause he had all the rings to prove it.
642
00:32:02,963 --> 00:32:05,924
Ten World Series rings.
No one's ever gonna beat that.
643
00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:07,009
That's crazy.
644
00:32:10,137 --> 00:32:13,140
[jazz music playing]
645
00:32:19,980 --> 00:32:21,565
[Lindsay] It's difficult to comprehend
646
00:32:21,565 --> 00:32:24,985
just how popular baseball was
in the 1950s,
647
00:32:24,985 --> 00:32:28,280
which is when the crosstown rivalry
between the Dodgers and the Yankees
648
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:29,657
was at its peak.
649
00:32:30,991 --> 00:32:34,828
[Claire] Lo and behold,
the Dodgers sign Jackie Robinson.
650
00:32:34,828 --> 00:32:36,997
{\an8}And instantaneously,
651
00:32:36,997 --> 00:32:40,751
{\an8}most every person of color in the country
becomes a Dodger fan.
652
00:32:40,751 --> 00:32:45,422
One of Dad's lessons growing up
was respecting the opposition.
653
00:32:45,422 --> 00:32:48,759
{\an8}And, you know, it didn't matter
who you were playing.
654
00:32:48,759 --> 00:32:51,178
{\an8}Jackie Robinson once told me
655
00:32:51,178 --> 00:32:54,014
that when he came to hit in a game,
Dad said to him:
656
00:32:54,014 --> 00:32:56,767
"Thank you for your service
to the country.
657
00:32:57,476 --> 00:33:00,437
And welcome to professional baseball."
658
00:33:02,147 --> 00:33:03,982
[commentator]
Groundball now to Jackie Robinson.
659
00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:05,567
Over to Reese for one, back to Hodges.
660
00:33:05,567 --> 00:33:08,737
It gets away from him.
Berra's trying to go to second.
661
00:33:08,737 --> 00:33:12,658
Hodges picks the ball up,
and Yogi goes into second base.
662
00:33:12,658 --> 00:33:14,493
[Jackie]
I don't know what I'm laughing about,
663
00:33:14,493 --> 00:33:16,578
to tell you the truth, but Yogi,
664
00:33:16,578 --> 00:33:19,998
{\an8}to me, is as fine a clutch hitter
as I've ever seen in the game.
665
00:33:19,998 --> 00:33:22,209
{\an8}He does a tremendous job.
666
00:33:22,209 --> 00:33:27,548
{\an8}There's no Jackie
without the acceptance of Yogi Berra
667
00:33:27,548 --> 00:33:30,384
and Ted Williams and Pee Wee Reese.
668
00:33:30,384 --> 00:33:35,264
That amazing supporting cast
who didn't say no.
669
00:33:37,766 --> 00:33:42,062
[Dave] Game 1 of the 1955 World Series
brings Yogi and Jackie together
670
00:33:42,062 --> 00:33:45,607
in one of the most iconic moments
in the history of the game.
671
00:33:48,527 --> 00:33:51,321
They were behind,
and Jackie felt that he needed
672
00:33:51,321 --> 00:33:55,117
to spark his team
in the most daring play in baseball,
673
00:33:55,117 --> 00:33:56,410
the steal of home.
674
00:33:56,410 --> 00:33:59,121
[commentator 1] Whitey Ford,
the Yankee pitcher, ignores him.
675
00:33:59,872 --> 00:34:03,250
But his desire burns as fiercely as ever.
676
00:34:03,250 --> 00:34:06,086
Suddenly, Robinson is roaring
down the line.
677
00:34:06,086 --> 00:34:08,422
Robinson dashes to the plate.
678
00:34:08,422 --> 00:34:10,507
[suspenseful music playing]
679
00:34:12,843 --> 00:34:13,886
[commentator 2] It's close.
680
00:34:14,636 --> 00:34:16,722
And Umpire Summers calls him safe.
681
00:34:17,514 --> 00:34:20,017
[commentator 1] Yankee catcher Yogi Berra
roars in protest,
682
00:34:20,017 --> 00:34:21,977
but Jackie Robinson has stolen home,
683
00:34:21,977 --> 00:34:25,564
the most exciting moment
in World Series history.
684
00:34:25,564 --> 00:34:27,775
{\an8}[Vin] Yeah, I think I broadcast that.
685
00:34:27,775 --> 00:34:29,443
{\an8}I did.
686
00:34:29,443 --> 00:34:32,696
And, yeah, I can see
Yogi jumping up in the air, you know.
687
00:34:32,696 --> 00:34:34,114
Thought he had him.
688
00:34:34,114 --> 00:34:36,033
I thought that Jackie was out.
689
00:34:36,033 --> 00:34:37,868
Yogi thought he was out.
690
00:34:37,868 --> 00:34:42,372
But the umpire thought he was safe.
That's really all that counts, you know.
691
00:34:42,372 --> 00:34:45,959
[Héctor] It looked like he was out to me
when they called him safe.
692
00:34:45,959 --> 00:34:50,047
{\an8}But Yogi went-- That's the only time
I saw Yogi kind of went off.
693
00:34:50,047 --> 00:34:52,466
{\an8}He was all over that umpire. [chuckles]
694
00:34:52,466 --> 00:34:54,301
{\an8}I mean, he was safe, right?
695
00:34:54,301 --> 00:34:56,303
{\an8}They called him safe. You can't change it.
696
00:34:56,303 --> 00:34:59,598
{\an8}There's no replay back then.
So, uh, yeah, he's...
697
00:34:59,598 --> 00:35:03,185
Yeah, no matter how you look at it,
he was safe. [chuckles]
698
00:35:03,185 --> 00:35:04,311
[Dave] I asked him once.
699
00:35:04,311 --> 00:35:07,022
"Why didn't he throw you out
when you were just screaming,
700
00:35:07,022 --> 00:35:09,358
the veins are popping,
and you're yelling and yelling?
701
00:35:09,358 --> 00:35:11,777
And Yogi said, "He knew I was right."
702
00:35:12,444 --> 00:35:14,196
He let it go on the field,
703
00:35:14,196 --> 00:35:17,658
but certainly didn't let it go elsewhere
for the rest of his life.
704
00:35:17,658 --> 00:35:20,661
Till the day he died,
he knew Jackie was out.
705
00:35:20,661 --> 00:35:24,081
He knew Jackie was out,
and he got volatile.
706
00:35:24,081 --> 00:35:26,041
{\an8}He's out. Just ask Yogi, right?
707
00:35:26,041 --> 00:35:28,043
{\an8}I mean, he told that story
year after year,
708
00:35:28,043 --> 00:35:29,795
{\an8}and you could get him going with it.
709
00:35:29,795 --> 00:35:30,963
{\an8}- [Tim] Yogi.
- What?
710
00:35:30,963 --> 00:35:32,589
{\an8}- [Tim] Robinson's steal--
- He's out.
711
00:35:32,589 --> 00:35:33,632
{\an8}- [Tim] What?
- He's out.
712
00:35:33,632 --> 00:35:36,635
{\an8}All right, let's roll it, guys.
They wanna see it.
713
00:35:36,635 --> 00:35:39,346
- Look at that.
- [man] Your glove is up in the air.
714
00:35:39,346 --> 00:35:41,390
[Tim] Yogi, your glove is up here.
715
00:35:41,390 --> 00:35:44,351
[all speaking indistinctly]
716
00:35:44,351 --> 00:35:46,979
{\an8}Oh, my God. No, forget about that.
717
00:35:46,979 --> 00:35:50,941
{\an8}Now, when you wanna get Yogi upset,
that was my point. That was...
718
00:35:50,941 --> 00:35:53,485
{\an8}"Yogi, I think he was safe."
719
00:35:53,485 --> 00:35:57,197
And he'd look at me,
like, "Mariano, he was out."
720
00:35:57,781 --> 00:36:00,325
"No, Yogi, I mean,
I'm looking at the video.
721
00:36:00,325 --> 00:36:01,702
I think he was safe."
722
00:36:01,702 --> 00:36:03,036
"He was out!"
723
00:36:04,621 --> 00:36:07,332
{\an8}I get... We used to...
He used to get mad at me too, man.
724
00:36:07,332 --> 00:36:09,585
{\an8}"Yogi, he was safe. He was safe."
725
00:36:09,585 --> 00:36:13,171
{\an8}And he used to go,
"Bullshit, Willie. Bullshit. He was out."
726
00:36:13,171 --> 00:36:15,090
[Mattingly] "Hey, Yog, I'm telling you,
727
00:36:15,090 --> 00:36:17,551
I was watching MLB last night,
they broke it down."
728
00:36:17,551 --> 00:36:20,053
{\an8}- Safe!
-"And he was safe."
729
00:36:20,053 --> 00:36:22,556
{\an8}And he goes, "Bullshit. He was out."
730
00:36:22,556 --> 00:36:25,601
{\an8}Even to that,
he was just like, "Bullshit."
731
00:36:25,601 --> 00:36:27,394
{\an8}Right away. Instantly.
732
00:36:27,394 --> 00:36:30,856
If I ever agreed with Yogi,
that'd have been no fun.
733
00:36:30,856 --> 00:36:33,358
I couldn't agree with him.
734
00:36:33,358 --> 00:36:34,359
Jackie was out.
735
00:36:34,359 --> 00:36:36,194
{\an8}- He was out.
- He was out.
736
00:36:36,194 --> 00:36:38,572
{\an8}There's no question about it. He was out.
737
00:36:40,198 --> 00:36:43,952
[John] Look at it frame by frame.
There's no other way to do it.
738
00:36:44,620 --> 00:36:47,080
Because if you're looking at it
with your heart,
739
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:48,957
then you may say Yogi.
740
00:36:50,167 --> 00:36:52,920
And in my view,
anyone who looks at it closely
741
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,213
can arrive at only one conclusion.
742
00:36:55,839 --> 00:36:57,633
Jackie Robinson was safe.
743
00:36:58,425 --> 00:37:00,385
Doggone it, he's out, I tell you.
744
00:37:00,385 --> 00:37:02,137
Why, Berra had him cold.
745
00:37:02,721 --> 00:37:05,223
You saw that play.
He had him cold, didn't he?
746
00:37:05,223 --> 00:37:09,311
{\an8}[Lindsay] That collision at home plate
became part of the national conversation
747
00:37:09,311 --> 00:37:11,939
because both men had become cultural icons
748
00:37:11,939 --> 00:37:14,858
who represented something much larger
than baseball.
749
00:37:14,858 --> 00:37:18,111
♪ Take me out to the ball game ♪
750
00:37:18,111 --> 00:37:21,448
♪ Take me out with the crowd ♪
751
00:37:22,449 --> 00:37:25,577
♪ Buy me some peanuts
And Cracker Jack... ♪
752
00:37:25,577 --> 00:37:27,788
{\an8}- [umpire] Strike!
- What? Yogi.
753
00:37:27,788 --> 00:37:30,374
{\an8}It's a perfect strike. The ump was right.
754
00:37:30,374 --> 00:37:33,001
{\an8}I don't like sarcasm, Berra.
You're out of the game too.
755
00:37:33,001 --> 00:37:34,419
You can't do that!
756
00:37:34,419 --> 00:37:38,173
♪ For it's one, two
Three strikes, you're out ♪
757
00:37:38,173 --> 00:37:42,844
♪ At the old ball game ♪
758
00:37:42,844 --> 00:37:46,807
[Lindsay] I think, ultimately,
what happened with my Grandpa Yogi is that
759
00:37:46,807 --> 00:37:49,935
he plays these 18 amazing seasons
in the big leagues.
760
00:37:49,935 --> 00:37:53,730
{\an8}And he becomes
this funny-looking, little dude
761
00:37:53,730 --> 00:37:57,401
{\an8}who comes into the national consciousness
in another way.
762
00:37:57,401 --> 00:37:59,194
{\an8}Do you ever hit home runs?
763
00:38:01,113 --> 00:38:04,157
{\an8}- [in high-pitched voice] Sometimes.
- Are you in love with a movie star?
764
00:38:04,658 --> 00:38:06,576
[laughs]
765
00:38:06,576 --> 00:38:08,662
Have you played
several positions this year,
766
00:38:08,662 --> 00:38:10,580
notably catcher and left field?
767
00:38:10,580 --> 00:38:13,375
{\an8}[whispering indistinctly]
768
00:38:13,375 --> 00:38:15,836
{\an8}- [man] Are you Yogi Berra?
- Yeah.
769
00:38:15,836 --> 00:38:17,921
{\an8}- [laughing]
- [audience applauding]
770
00:38:19,756 --> 00:38:22,384
{\an8}[Billy] If there's a problem about Yogi,
it's perception.
771
00:38:22,384 --> 00:38:25,345
{\an8}Mantle was Elvis in pinstripes,
772
00:38:25,345 --> 00:38:27,305
{\an8}and Yogi was Sancho Panza.
773
00:38:27,305 --> 00:38:30,809
{\an8}I mean, that was...
He was this squat, little guy.
774
00:38:30,809 --> 00:38:32,227
[pop music playing]
775
00:38:32,227 --> 00:38:34,563
That's how people became aware of Yogi.
776
00:38:34,563 --> 00:38:36,982
[man] Introducing the Yoo-hoos!
777
00:38:36,982 --> 00:38:39,943
[Lindsay] Advertisers amplified
Yogi's clown-like image
778
00:38:39,943 --> 00:38:41,695
every chance they got.
779
00:38:41,695 --> 00:38:45,198
Bottle caps for Yoo-hoo chocolate drink
bore a photo of Yogi
780
00:38:45,198 --> 00:38:48,702
with the grammatically questionable slogan
"Me for Yoo-hoo."
781
00:38:49,369 --> 00:38:51,580
There was a cat-food commercial
where Yogi has
782
00:38:51,580 --> 00:38:54,624
a perfectly normal conversation
with a cat.
783
00:38:54,624 --> 00:38:57,794
- Champ, you're in great shape.
- [Champ] I like to keep fit.
784
00:38:57,794 --> 00:38:59,921
Work out every day, gym, road work.
785
00:38:59,921 --> 00:39:00,964
[chuckles]
786
00:39:00,964 --> 00:39:04,509
{\an8}[Billy] I think it's quite evident
that his personality
787
00:39:04,509 --> 00:39:07,304
overshadowed his talent as a ballplayer.
788
00:39:07,304 --> 00:39:09,848
[jazz music playing]
789
00:39:10,432 --> 00:39:14,269
{\an8}The jokey Yogi, the cute Yogi,
the little gnome Yogi,
790
00:39:14,269 --> 00:39:15,896
the character Yogi,
791
00:39:15,896 --> 00:39:18,106
it always felt wrong.
792
00:39:18,106 --> 00:39:19,983
{\an8}It's not fair to him.
793
00:39:19,983 --> 00:39:23,153
{\an8}This was a really great player.
794
00:39:23,153 --> 00:39:24,863
He was as great as any of them.
795
00:39:24,863 --> 00:39:26,656
Mantle said to me several times:
796
00:39:26,656 --> 00:39:29,701
"Well, he was the heart and soul
of our teams."
797
00:39:30,285 --> 00:39:32,704
{\an8}[Lindsay]
This image of Yogi as a lovable mascot,
798
00:39:32,704 --> 00:39:34,372
like a cartoon character,
799
00:39:34,372 --> 00:39:36,333
continued to grow until they decided
800
00:39:36,333 --> 00:39:40,003
to just turn him
into an actual cartoon character.
801
00:39:40,003 --> 00:39:41,922
[theme music playing]
802
00:39:41,922 --> 00:39:44,633
[narrator]
This happens to be a true bear story.
803
00:39:44,633 --> 00:39:50,222
This particular bear, called Yogi,
smart-- Uh, fairly smart.
804
00:39:50,222 --> 00:39:53,850
It was, like, common knowledge
in my family that Yogi Bear
805
00:39:53,850 --> 00:39:56,186
had been named after my grandfather.
806
00:39:56,186 --> 00:39:58,772
{\an8}Oh, no, I don't think
it was a coincidence at all.
807
00:39:58,772 --> 00:40:00,857
- [narrator] That's right.
- Yogi Bear.
808
00:40:00,857 --> 00:40:02,484
[narrator] Yogi Bear.
809
00:40:03,902 --> 00:40:05,362
Now, where did it go?
810
00:40:05,362 --> 00:40:08,073
[narrator]
Yogi Bear's got an appetite for adventure.
811
00:40:08,073 --> 00:40:09,241
Oh, Yogi.
812
00:40:09,241 --> 00:40:11,576
{\an8}[upbeat music playing]
813
00:40:11,576 --> 00:40:13,578
{\an8}Go!
814
00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:17,207
{\an8}I'm smarter than the average bear.
815
00:40:17,958 --> 00:40:19,543
{\an8}Well, when they made the Yogi Bear,
816
00:40:19,543 --> 00:40:23,296
{\an8}they actually tried
to get a civil suit against them.
817
00:40:23,296 --> 00:40:27,676
Unfortunately, the judge ruled
that Yogi was not his real name.
818
00:40:27,676 --> 00:40:29,553
He never trademarked his name.
819
00:40:29,553 --> 00:40:30,679
[theme music playing]
820
00:40:30,679 --> 00:40:34,141
♪ Yogi Bear is smarter
Than the average bear... ♪
821
00:40:34,141 --> 00:40:36,101
It was a great cartoon show though.
822
00:40:37,519 --> 00:40:39,604
I don't think Yogi liked it too much.
823
00:40:39,604 --> 00:40:40,522
Um...
824
00:40:41,481 --> 00:40:45,193
"I'm not a cartoon.
You know, they made me a cartoon."
825
00:40:47,654 --> 00:40:50,657
[jazz music playing]
826
00:40:59,916 --> 00:41:02,878
[announcer] Yogi Berra announced
his retirement as a player.
827
00:41:02,878 --> 00:41:07,174
[Lindsay] In 1964, Yogi was offered
the chance to manage a Yankees team
828
00:41:07,174 --> 00:41:09,885
that was on the precipice
of a steep decline.
829
00:41:09,885 --> 00:41:14,014
Key players like Mickey Mantle
and Whitey Ford were battling injuries,
830
00:41:14,014 --> 00:41:17,642
and Elston Howard, whom Yogi had mentored
to replace him at catcher,
831
00:41:17,642 --> 00:41:19,853
was nearing the end of his career.
832
00:41:19,853 --> 00:41:22,814
I know all my ballplayers.
They're all a great bunch of fellas.
833
00:41:22,814 --> 00:41:27,611
I know their habits and what they do
off the field and off the field.
834
00:41:27,611 --> 00:41:29,905
I think it's a challenge for me,
835
00:41:29,905 --> 00:41:31,948
and I wanna get a taste of it.
836
00:41:31,948 --> 00:41:34,284
If I can't manage, I'll quit.
837
00:41:34,284 --> 00:41:38,288
And if I could,
then we'll stick around a little longer.
838
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,167
[Allen] Yogi was a very good manager.
839
00:41:42,959 --> 00:41:45,462
{\an8}You can't be funny and serious.
840
00:41:45,462 --> 00:41:49,216
{\an8}Just like you can't think and hit
at the same time.
841
00:41:49,216 --> 00:41:50,133
{\an8}That's true.
842
00:41:51,009 --> 00:41:53,970
A lot of the writers
weren't quite as enamored
843
00:41:53,970 --> 00:41:55,764
with Yogi the manager
844
00:41:55,764 --> 00:41:58,225
'cause they couldn't get
funny statements out of him
845
00:41:58,225 --> 00:42:02,270
or because he couldn't be
the friendly Yogi, Yogi Bear.
846
00:42:02,270 --> 00:42:05,774
When you first broke in with the Yankees,
the sportswriters made a big thing
847
00:42:05,774 --> 00:42:07,651
about you reading comics
in the locker room.
848
00:42:07,651 --> 00:42:10,237
Do you think this will fit in
with the Yankee image?
849
00:42:10,237 --> 00:42:11,947
Well, I have one thing to say.
850
00:42:11,947 --> 00:42:15,033
Every time I'd finish reading,
everybody else wanted to read them.
851
00:42:15,033 --> 00:42:17,077
They all asked, "Let me see it after you."
852
00:42:18,119 --> 00:42:20,330
{\an8}Yogi was dealt a very difficult hand.
853
00:42:20,330 --> 00:42:22,916
{\an8}And remember, he was a manager,
854
00:42:22,916 --> 00:42:25,961
{\an8}but he was managing guys who, I think...
855
00:42:25,961 --> 00:42:28,964
{\an8}They were still, "Hey, Yog. Hey, Yog."
856
00:42:28,964 --> 00:42:32,467
I think it was a problem
for a lot of people in the media
857
00:42:32,467 --> 00:42:35,512
who thought there should be
some kind of chain of command
858
00:42:35,512 --> 00:42:37,138
that you had to adhere to.
859
00:42:37,138 --> 00:42:39,766
And with him, it was like,
"Hey, we're all in the dugout.
860
00:42:39,766 --> 00:42:42,727
We're all pulling
from the same end of the rope."
861
00:42:42,727 --> 00:42:45,772
And I think
that the media looked at Yogi as:
862
00:42:45,772 --> 00:42:48,066
"This guy's not smart enough
to be a manager
863
00:42:48,066 --> 00:42:49,693
because he doesn't look the part."
864
00:42:49,693 --> 00:42:53,446
You've been saying that the Yankees
are gonna finish in first place.
865
00:42:53,446 --> 00:42:55,156
Do you still feel that way?
866
00:42:55,156 --> 00:42:57,492
I think so. I think they gotta catch us.
867
00:42:57,492 --> 00:42:59,494
Yogi, as I recall, I don't think
868
00:42:59,494 --> 00:43:01,997
you've been waved out
of any games by the umpires.
869
00:43:01,997 --> 00:43:05,583
- You gonna get along with all the umps?
- I'll just let it ride right now.
870
00:43:05,583 --> 00:43:07,127
You gonna get a little tougher, huh?
871
00:43:07,127 --> 00:43:08,878
I don't know about a little tougher,
872
00:43:08,878 --> 00:43:11,965
but you always can put
your two cents' worth in.
873
00:43:11,965 --> 00:43:16,511
[Allen] Yogi worked very hard
to sound like a manager.
874
00:43:16,511 --> 00:43:18,638
His image suffered from it.
875
00:43:18,638 --> 00:43:19,973
But at that point,
876
00:43:19,973 --> 00:43:24,686
you think the Yankees had
a couple of old veteran players.
877
00:43:24,686 --> 00:43:26,688
How do you control guys
878
00:43:26,688 --> 00:43:30,150
that have been out of control
for a decade?
879
00:43:31,234 --> 00:43:33,653
{\an8}[Bobby]
The Yankees didn't start off real well.
880
00:43:33,653 --> 00:43:35,697
{\an8}We were behind maybe seven or eight games.
881
00:43:35,697 --> 00:43:38,825
{\an8}Went into a series
with the Chicago White Sox.
882
00:43:38,825 --> 00:43:42,245
{\an8}[commentator]
Yogi Berra paces the dugout impatiently.
883
00:43:42,245 --> 00:43:44,080
We lost all four games.
884
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,791
We got on the bus
going out toward O'Hare Airport.
885
00:43:46,791 --> 00:43:48,877
You could've heard a pin drop,
it was so quiet.
886
00:43:48,877 --> 00:43:52,756
And finally, Phil Linz,
who hadn't played an inning in any game,
887
00:43:52,756 --> 00:43:55,592
chose this time to learn
how to play his harmonica.
888
00:43:55,592 --> 00:43:58,303
Someone says,
"Hey, Phil, what can you play?"
889
00:43:58,303 --> 00:44:00,889
He says, "Well, I can play
'Mary Had a Little Lamb.'"
890
00:44:00,889 --> 00:44:01,931
And he started playing--
891
00:44:01,931 --> 00:44:04,017
[imitates poor harmonica playing]
892
00:44:05,268 --> 00:44:06,811
It's not that difficult.
893
00:44:06,811 --> 00:44:09,397
Well, Yogi said, "Shut up back there."
894
00:44:09,397 --> 00:44:11,649
"Shut up that noise back there."
895
00:44:11,649 --> 00:44:15,362
So Phil then turned
to Mickey Mantle and said:
896
00:44:15,362 --> 00:44:16,988
"What did he say?"
897
00:44:16,988 --> 00:44:21,117
Mickey Mantle said,
"He said play it louder. Play it louder."
898
00:44:22,327 --> 00:44:25,580
And next thing,
you see Yogi coming down the aisle.
899
00:44:25,580 --> 00:44:27,874
And he said,
"I told you to put that thing away."
900
00:44:27,874 --> 00:44:31,961
And Phil freaks, and Joe Pepitone
is sitting to Phil's left,
901
00:44:31,961 --> 00:44:34,255
and Phil just throws
the harmonica up in the air,
902
00:44:34,255 --> 00:44:36,883
and Yogi swipes it
and hits Joe on the knee.
903
00:44:36,883 --> 00:44:39,094
He said, "You hurt my knee!
You hurt my knee!"
904
00:44:39,094 --> 00:44:40,929
It's like a sitcom.
905
00:44:41,805 --> 00:44:44,057
Linz is fined. It's a big deal.
906
00:44:44,057 --> 00:44:46,476
It's the back page
of the New York tabloids.
907
00:44:46,476 --> 00:44:48,269
We're going to have
a harmonica solo tonight
908
00:44:48,269 --> 00:44:50,063
by Mr. Phil Linz of the Yankees.
909
00:44:50,063 --> 00:44:53,066
[audience laughs and applauds]
910
00:44:53,066 --> 00:44:54,150
Yes.
911
00:44:55,485 --> 00:44:57,779
His first selection will be
"Who's Sorry Now?"
912
00:44:59,447 --> 00:45:02,951
[Al] Basically, what the media says
about the harmonica incident,
913
00:45:02,951 --> 00:45:04,619
when it came out in the paper, was:
914
00:45:04,619 --> 00:45:07,789
"That's proof that Yogi does not
have control of this team."
915
00:45:07,789 --> 00:45:09,707
Which is nothing further from the truth.
916
00:45:09,707 --> 00:45:11,543
Or, "We don't think Yogi can manage."
917
00:45:11,543 --> 00:45:14,129
Midway through the season,
our team is rolling.
918
00:45:14,129 --> 00:45:16,005
We're cooking, we're in the pennant race.
919
00:45:16,005 --> 00:45:18,842
Everybody's saying, "It's just luck.
Look at the team he has."
920
00:45:18,842 --> 00:45:22,470
But there were a lot of moves
that he made that made a big difference,
921
00:45:22,470 --> 00:45:24,722
and taking chances on some players
922
00:45:24,722 --> 00:45:27,851
that some people might not normally
take a chance on.
923
00:45:27,851 --> 00:45:30,728
Coincidence or not,
the Yankees then turn it around.
924
00:45:32,897 --> 00:45:36,025
And we went on
to win 18 games in a row after that
925
00:45:36,025 --> 00:45:37,235
{\an8}and won the pennant.
926
00:45:37,235 --> 00:45:39,946
{\an8}[commentator 1] And here, New York clinch
the American League pennant
927
00:45:39,946 --> 00:45:41,614
{\an8}on next-to-the-last day of the season.
928
00:45:41,614 --> 00:45:44,075
{\an8}[commentator 2] Yogi Berra,
serving his first year as manager,
929
00:45:44,075 --> 00:45:46,453
{\an8}had a close call,
but came through in the end.
930
00:45:46,453 --> 00:45:49,998
{\an8}♪ It's a beautiful day
For a ball game... ♪
931
00:45:49,998 --> 00:45:52,750
[commentator 3] And here again
are the New York Yankees.
932
00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:56,463
They've been in 15
of the last 18 World Series.
933
00:45:56,463 --> 00:45:59,632
[Lindsay] Yogi once again found a way
to defy all expectations
934
00:45:59,632 --> 00:46:02,093
by leading a squad
of aging and injured Yankees
935
00:46:02,093 --> 00:46:03,970
back to the World Series,
936
00:46:03,970 --> 00:46:08,099
where they faced the upstart Cardinals
in what would become an epic battle.
937
00:46:08,099 --> 00:46:11,728
[commentator] Manager Johnny Keane
seems relaxed as he talks with reporters.
938
00:46:11,728 --> 00:46:14,898
Manager Berra of the Yankees
keeps busy before the game.
939
00:46:14,898 --> 00:46:19,486
Bob Gibson blazes a fastball
past hard-swinging Mickey Mantle.
940
00:46:19,486 --> 00:46:21,196
[ominous music playing]
941
00:46:21,196 --> 00:46:23,656
Sometimes things happen,
942
00:46:23,656 --> 00:46:26,993
and one instance can change
an entire series.
943
00:46:26,993 --> 00:46:31,789
And there was one play, in my mind,
that totally changed that series.
944
00:46:31,789 --> 00:46:34,918
[commentator] Richardson goes far
to his right for a fine stop,
945
00:46:34,918 --> 00:46:37,003
but the ball seems stuck in his glove.
946
00:46:37,003 --> 00:46:40,298
He finally makes the toss,
but Linz drops the ball,
947
00:46:40,298 --> 00:46:42,342
and Flood is safe at second base.
948
00:46:43,134 --> 00:46:45,678
We should've won that series,
and I've told it before,
949
00:46:45,678 --> 00:46:47,263
but if I hadn't made that error
950
00:46:47,263 --> 00:46:50,350
that loaded the bases for Ken Boyer
to hit the grand slam,
951
00:46:50,350 --> 00:46:52,101
we'd have won that series too.
952
00:46:52,101 --> 00:46:54,979
[commentator 1]
Boyer smashes it deep to left field.
953
00:46:54,979 --> 00:46:58,358
It might be out of here. It is a home run!
954
00:46:59,025 --> 00:47:03,029
A grand slam that's fair
by only five or six feet.
955
00:47:03,029 --> 00:47:07,867
{\an8}[commentator 2] St. Louis hangs on to win
their first World Series since 1946.
956
00:47:09,744 --> 00:47:12,705
[Lindsay] Yogi took his team all the way
to Game 7 of the World Series
957
00:47:12,705 --> 00:47:14,499
in his first year as manager.
958
00:47:14,499 --> 00:47:16,626
So he was convinced the Yankees
were going to give him
959
00:47:16,626 --> 00:47:18,586
a two-year contract extension.
960
00:47:19,087 --> 00:47:21,881
{\an8}But Ralph Houk had made up
his mind months ago
961
00:47:21,881 --> 00:47:23,424
{\an8}that he was going to fire Yogi.
962
00:47:23,424 --> 00:47:24,842
And so he did.
963
00:47:24,842 --> 00:47:26,594
[dramatic music playing]
964
00:47:26,594 --> 00:47:28,471
[Russ] Yogi gets fired,
965
00:47:28,471 --> 00:47:31,599
and Johnny Keane,
who was the manager of the Cardinals,
966
00:47:31,599 --> 00:47:33,726
comes over to the Yankees.
967
00:47:33,726 --> 00:47:38,022
{\an8}And quite frankly, that put the Yankees
on the downward spiral.
968
00:47:38,022 --> 00:47:41,734
{\an8}I used to talk to Yogi about that,
and the way he would say it:
969
00:47:41,734 --> 00:47:43,778
"I thought I was going in for a raise."
970
00:47:43,778 --> 00:47:47,448
{\an8}[announcer] Behind the color
and the crowds of the World Series,
971
00:47:47,448 --> 00:47:50,827
machinations worthy
of Machiavelli were in progress.
972
00:47:50,827 --> 00:47:55,123
They had fallen six or seven games
behind in August.
973
00:47:55,123 --> 00:47:59,043
{\an8}Yankee management felt
that Yogi had lost control of the team,
974
00:47:59,043 --> 00:48:02,630
{\an8}and they decided then
that they were gonna fire him.
975
00:48:03,214 --> 00:48:04,882
What are you doing to Yogi?
976
00:48:05,967 --> 00:48:08,177
You know, and it wasn't right.
977
00:48:08,177 --> 00:48:10,680
You know, but he, uh...
978
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,349
He took it like a man,
you know, but inside...
979
00:48:15,351 --> 00:48:17,770
It had to be killing him. It had to be.
980
00:48:17,770 --> 00:48:19,939
I called Yogi.
I talked to Carmen, his wife.
981
00:48:19,939 --> 00:48:24,652
She said, "Yogi's upstairs crying.
He's so upset at losing the job
982
00:48:24,652 --> 00:48:27,030
and maybe having to leave the Yankees,"
and so forth.
983
00:48:27,030 --> 00:48:30,450
[announcer] But cellar dweller Stengel
had no complications.
984
00:48:30,450 --> 00:48:31,909
{\an8}He was re-signed,
985
00:48:31,909 --> 00:48:34,996
{\an8}and then came the news
that the Mets had hired Yogi,
986
00:48:34,996 --> 00:48:37,206
who got a hefty severance check
from the Yanks.
987
00:48:37,206 --> 00:48:40,793
[lilting music playing]
988
00:48:40,793 --> 00:48:44,672
[Lindsay] Casey Stengel swooped in
and hired Yogi to help coach the Mets.
989
00:48:44,672 --> 00:48:46,382
They were dead last in the league,
990
00:48:46,382 --> 00:48:50,470
and Shea Stadium was considered a place
where careers went to die.
991
00:48:50,470 --> 00:48:52,180
[announcer] Casey was determined this year
992
00:48:52,180 --> 00:48:55,558
that the Mets would not
fall below last place.
993
00:48:55,558 --> 00:48:57,727
Excuse me, sir. Why are you a Mets fan?
994
00:48:58,436 --> 00:49:00,146
[chuckles] I'm not.
995
00:49:00,146 --> 00:49:01,731
[commentator] Yes, out.
996
00:49:01,731 --> 00:49:04,442
And out comes Casey Stengel,
one of baseball's...
997
00:49:04,442 --> 00:49:06,653
[Art]
In 1968, we couldn't do anything right.
998
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,823
Yogi is our first-base coach,
but he's also the hitting coach.
999
00:49:10,823 --> 00:49:12,700
{\an8}[commentator] Art Shamsky.
1000
00:49:12,700 --> 00:49:16,663
{\an8}One day, I said to him,
"I'm really struggling. What should I do?"
1001
00:49:16,663 --> 00:49:18,748
He just simply said, "See it, hit it."
1002
00:49:18,748 --> 00:49:21,584
I mean, you don't get
any more basic than that. He was right.
1003
00:49:21,584 --> 00:49:23,503
It's a pretty simple philosophy.
1004
00:49:23,503 --> 00:49:24,587
[crowd gasps]
1005
00:49:24,587 --> 00:49:27,507
[Lindsay]
He really loved to mentor younger players.
1006
00:49:27,507 --> 00:49:31,177
[commentator] Nobody in baseball
tries harder than Ron Swoboda.
1007
00:49:31,177 --> 00:49:33,554
{\an8}[Lindsay]
One time, Mets outfielder Ron Swoboda
1008
00:49:33,554 --> 00:49:35,181
{\an8}said he was going to start using
1009
00:49:35,181 --> 00:49:37,892
{\an8}the same batting stance
as Frank Robinson.
1010
00:49:37,892 --> 00:49:41,938
And Grandpa says, "No, no, no.
I don't think that's a good idea."
1011
00:49:41,938 --> 00:49:44,774
And he says, "If you can't imitate him,
don't copy him."
1012
00:49:44,774 --> 00:49:47,318
["In the Hall of the Mountain King"
playing]
1013
00:49:47,318 --> 00:49:50,363
I think the thing is,
is he simplifies everything.
1014
00:49:50,363 --> 00:49:53,574
Sometimes you overanalyze
and you overthink,
1015
00:49:53,574 --> 00:49:56,369
and you hear something so simple as:
1016
00:49:56,369 --> 00:49:58,079
"Swing at a strike."
1017
00:49:58,079 --> 00:50:01,165
And you're like, "You know what?
I keep thinking about everything else,
1018
00:50:01,165 --> 00:50:03,918
but that really makes a lot of sense."
1019
00:50:03,918 --> 00:50:08,256
[Lindsay] When Yogi joined the Mets,
they were losing over 100 games a year.
1020
00:50:08,256 --> 00:50:09,507
[commentator] Ron Swoboda.
1021
00:50:09,507 --> 00:50:12,009
[Lindsay]
He helped turn them around, and in 1969,
1022
00:50:12,009 --> 00:50:14,721
the Miracle Mets went on to win 100 games
1023
00:50:14,721 --> 00:50:17,890
and shock the baseball world
by winning the World Series,
1024
00:50:17,890 --> 00:50:20,017
giving Yogi his 11th ring.
1025
00:50:20,017 --> 00:50:22,019
- Amazing.
- It's amazing!
1026
00:50:22,019 --> 00:50:26,107
["Miracle Drive
(The Ballad of the '69 Mets)" playing]
1027
00:50:26,107 --> 00:50:29,193
[Art]
He saw a team that went from nowhere,
1028
00:50:29,819 --> 00:50:33,823
the lovable losers, for lack of
a better word, to winning a World Series.
1029
00:50:33,823 --> 00:50:39,704
{\an8}♪ In a ballpark in Flushing
In the year '69 ♪
1030
00:50:39,704 --> 00:50:45,418
♪ That team known as losers
Began a miracle drive... ♪
1031
00:50:45,418 --> 00:50:50,715
Again, they-- Somehow, these World Series
follow my dad around like rabbits.
1032
00:50:50,715 --> 00:50:52,759
It's just an amazing thing.
1033
00:50:52,759 --> 00:50:58,055
♪ That miracle drive... ♪
1034
00:50:58,055 --> 00:51:02,852
{\an8}[Lindsay] Upon the death of Mets manager
Gil Hodges, Yogi's dear friend,
1035
00:51:02,852 --> 00:51:05,938
{\an8}Yogi became the manager
of the Mets in 1972.
1036
00:51:05,938 --> 00:51:08,983
And in 1973,
he overcame the odds once again
1037
00:51:08,983 --> 00:51:12,278
to find himself in the middle
of a heated pennant race.
1038
00:51:12,278 --> 00:51:14,906
- [Yogi] Let's go with percentage, Tug.
- [Tug] You wanna put him on?
1039
00:51:14,906 --> 00:51:16,824
- You do?
- Yeah. Go ahead. Go with the lefty.
1040
00:51:17,825 --> 00:51:20,661
[Lindsay] The team's motto that year,
"Ya Gotta Believe,"
1041
00:51:20,661 --> 00:51:23,998
embodied the underdog nature
of Grandpa's persona.
1042
00:51:23,998 --> 00:51:26,793
[commentator]
The New York Mets are in first place!
1043
00:51:26,793 --> 00:51:29,086
[Lindsay]
Somehow, the Mets managed to overcome
1044
00:51:29,086 --> 00:51:32,507
a 12.5-game deficit in July
to win the pennant,
1045
00:51:32,507 --> 00:51:35,843
which sent Yogi
back to the World Series again.
1046
00:51:35,843 --> 00:51:39,055
Yogi told the press,
"I never thought we were really out of it.
1047
00:51:39,055 --> 00:51:41,474
You're not out of it
until it's mathematical."
1048
00:51:41,474 --> 00:51:45,186
It's this last bit, "You're not out of it
until it's mathematical,"
1049
00:51:45,186 --> 00:51:49,065
that ultimately evolved
into his most famous quote of all time:
1050
00:51:49,065 --> 00:51:51,067
"It ain't over till it's over."
1051
00:51:51,776 --> 00:51:54,111
The most amazing thing about this quote
1052
00:51:54,111 --> 00:51:58,741
is that there's no definitive proof
that he ever originated that exact phrase.
1053
00:51:58,741 --> 00:52:02,495
But it didn't matter because,
as with every other aspect of his life,
1054
00:52:02,495 --> 00:52:04,413
the myth outgrew the facts.
1055
00:52:13,965 --> 00:52:16,968
[tranquil music playing]
1056
00:52:19,053 --> 00:52:20,763
[crowd cheering]
1057
00:52:20,763 --> 00:52:23,933
In 1973,
George Steinbrenner bought the Yankees.
1058
00:52:23,933 --> 00:52:26,227
{\an8}They'd better represent themselves
like Yankees,
1059
00:52:26,227 --> 00:52:29,981
{\an8}in the same pride and tradition
of the era, the past.
1060
00:52:29,981 --> 00:52:34,193
[Lindsay] Three years later, in 1976,
he brought Yogi back as a coach.
1061
00:52:34,193 --> 00:52:35,903
{\an8}[commentator] And there is Yogi.
1062
00:52:35,903 --> 00:52:37,321
{\an8}Reggie Jackson.
1063
00:52:38,531 --> 00:52:41,826
Long drive, right field, it is goodbye!
1064
00:52:41,826 --> 00:52:43,995
[Lindsay]
The Yankees had not been to a World Series
1065
00:52:43,995 --> 00:52:46,372
since Yogi was fired in 1964,
1066
00:52:46,372 --> 00:52:48,291
but as soon as he returned,
1067
00:52:48,291 --> 00:52:51,961
they reached the World Series
three years in a row.
1068
00:52:51,961 --> 00:52:53,921
[commentator] Their 21st World Series!
1069
00:52:53,921 --> 00:52:59,552
For the 22nd time in 75 World Series,
the New York Yankees are the champions.
1070
00:53:00,177 --> 00:53:02,805
[Lindsay] Even though they won
back-to-back World Series titles
1071
00:53:02,805 --> 00:53:04,181
in '77 and '78,
1072
00:53:04,181 --> 00:53:06,767
giving Yogi his 12th and 13th rings,
1073
00:53:06,767 --> 00:53:09,770
it was a tumultuous time
for the Yankee organization.
1074
00:53:10,479 --> 00:53:12,607
They were known as the Bronx Zoo,
1075
00:53:12,607 --> 00:53:16,277
and it was Yogi who helped keep the team
together when things got out of hand.
1076
00:53:16,277 --> 00:53:18,946
[commentator 1] Some of the Yankees' minds
weren't on tonight's game
1077
00:53:18,946 --> 00:53:20,281
when they came to town.
1078
00:53:20,281 --> 00:53:23,826
Reggie Jackson was still feuding
with manager Billy Martin.
1079
00:53:23,826 --> 00:53:26,412
[commentator 2] He just took
Reggie Jackson out of the ball game,
1080
00:53:26,412 --> 00:53:29,957
and Jackson hit the top step of the dugout
and went flying right at Billy Martin.
1081
00:53:29,957 --> 00:53:31,667
The people over there can see it.
1082
00:53:31,667 --> 00:53:34,503
[commentator 1] Now people are climbing
on the dugout roof.
1083
00:53:35,004 --> 00:53:37,882
[commentator 3] Now the police are down
in the dugout or along the dugout.
1084
00:53:37,882 --> 00:53:40,676
[commentator 2] The Yankee dugout
is a caldron down there now.
1085
00:53:40,676 --> 00:53:43,846
[Billy]
When Reggie and Billy go at it in Boston,
1086
00:53:43,846 --> 00:53:49,060
you know, who's pulling who away,
you know, and keeping a cool head?
1087
00:53:49,060 --> 00:53:50,811
[news anchor]
They pushed, and they shoved.
1088
00:53:50,811 --> 00:53:52,980
They would fight. They would pout.
1089
00:53:52,980 --> 00:53:55,733
They were unhappy people,
of that there's no doubt.
1090
00:53:55,733 --> 00:53:58,611
They were willing
but tired and frustrated men.
1091
00:53:58,611 --> 00:54:00,696
- You're fired.
- Oh, not again.
1092
00:54:00,696 --> 00:54:01,614
[man] All set?
1093
00:54:01,614 --> 00:54:03,032
[indistinct chatter]
1094
00:54:03,032 --> 00:54:05,701
[Clyde] I guess you all know
why you're here. Uh...
1095
00:54:06,452 --> 00:54:10,831
The manager of the New York Yankees
for 1984 will be Lawrence "Yogi" Berra.
1096
00:54:10,831 --> 00:54:13,542
And there is probably
no Yankee in the world
1097
00:54:13,542 --> 00:54:16,545
any more genuinely loved
or respected than Yogi.
1098
00:54:16,545 --> 00:54:19,548
Uh... those who would say,
"Can he manage?"
1099
00:54:19,548 --> 00:54:21,926
Let me put this proposition to you.
1100
00:54:21,926 --> 00:54:26,222
He took the New York Yankees in one year
to an American League pennant,
1101
00:54:26,222 --> 00:54:29,433
and, uh, then, for some reason,
a change was made,
1102
00:54:29,433 --> 00:54:33,938
uh, and they didn't win another thing
for 12 years until 1976.
1103
00:54:33,938 --> 00:54:37,233
Uh, then he went to the Mets,
and he won a championship,
1104
00:54:37,233 --> 00:54:39,652
and, uh, for some reason,
a change was made,
1105
00:54:39,652 --> 00:54:42,113
and they haven't won any pennants since.
1106
00:54:42,113 --> 00:54:45,700
So Yogi Berra is a very unique man.
1107
00:54:45,700 --> 00:54:47,118
Come on up here, Yogi.
1108
00:54:48,202 --> 00:54:50,329
[cameras clicking]
1109
00:54:50,329 --> 00:54:52,206
Any ques--? Nobody can see me.
1110
00:54:52,206 --> 00:54:53,958
[all laugh]
1111
00:54:53,958 --> 00:54:55,501
If I could get a box.
1112
00:55:00,715 --> 00:55:01,716
Is it all right?
1113
00:55:03,426 --> 00:55:05,219
Hey, boy, I'm tall now.
1114
00:55:07,722 --> 00:55:09,890
{\an8}Two years. Two years. Mm-hm.
1115
00:55:09,890 --> 00:55:10,975
That's long enough.
1116
00:55:10,975 --> 00:55:14,228
If you're any good, uh,
you may get an extension.
1117
00:55:14,228 --> 00:55:15,771
[all laugh]
1118
00:55:15,771 --> 00:55:18,566
Does that mean we'll win next season?
We're gonna have a pennant?
1119
00:55:18,566 --> 00:55:20,693
[Yogi] I achieved everything in baseball.
1120
00:55:20,693 --> 00:55:22,361
I got inducted into the Hall of Fame.
1121
00:55:22,361 --> 00:55:24,697
I've been voted
the most valuable player three times.
1122
00:55:24,697 --> 00:55:28,200
I won the pennant
with the Yankees and the Mets.
1123
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:30,953
But there's one thing I haven't achieved,
win a World Series,
1124
00:55:30,953 --> 00:55:34,165
and I hope to do it this year, next year.
1125
00:55:34,707 --> 00:55:36,500
- No.
- Can I interrupt y'all?
1126
00:55:37,918 --> 00:55:40,629
{\an8}[commentator]
"Yogi's back" was the word about town.
1127
00:55:41,255 --> 00:55:45,718
{\an8}Yogi Berra, who helped write
Yankee history through five decades,
1128
00:55:45,718 --> 00:55:48,804
was the man chosen
to find the winning pieces
1129
00:55:48,804 --> 00:55:52,266
that would put the Yankees
back on the track to the top.
1130
00:55:52,975 --> 00:55:56,479
{\an8}Some pieces included well-known stars.
1131
00:55:56,479 --> 00:55:58,564
{\an8}Others, unknown youngsters.
1132
00:55:58,564 --> 00:56:01,984
[Mattingly] I mean,
you feel a total respect for Yogi,
1133
00:56:01,984 --> 00:56:06,906
{\an8}a guy that, uh, everybody loved,
not because he was cute and funny,
1134
00:56:06,906 --> 00:56:09,909
{\an8}it's because he was good and he was real.
1135
00:56:11,285 --> 00:56:14,288
[commentator 1] Fly ball,
right center field. Did he get all of it?
1136
00:56:14,288 --> 00:56:15,623
[commentator 2] Yeah, he got it.
1137
00:56:15,623 --> 00:56:18,042
[commentator 1] He got it!
And the Yankees have tied it up!
1138
00:56:18,042 --> 00:56:22,588
[Mattingly] He's just a gentle, kind soul,
is why he's so loved.
1139
00:56:22,588 --> 00:56:25,007
[commentator]
And Yogi, a prophet in his own time.
1140
00:56:25,007 --> 00:56:27,468
It ain't over till it's over.
Look at Mattingly.
1141
00:56:27,468 --> 00:56:30,429
[Mattingly]
You could go 0-for-4 or 4-for-4,
1142
00:56:30,429 --> 00:56:33,933
you see him after the game,
it was always gonna be the same:
1143
00:56:33,933 --> 00:56:35,684
"How you doing, kid?" Or...
1144
00:56:35,684 --> 00:56:38,646
He said to me one time, 'cause I was
a guy that liked to hit a lot,
1145
00:56:38,646 --> 00:56:42,525
and I would hit, and hit,
and hit extra, do all this stuff,
1146
00:56:42,525 --> 00:56:45,361
and he'd tell me, "You're gonna hit
your way right into a slump."
1147
00:56:45,903 --> 00:56:49,323
It took me a while to take that in,
quite honestly,
1148
00:56:49,323 --> 00:56:52,743
but I understood
what he was saying probably years later.
1149
00:56:52,743 --> 00:56:55,788
[pensive music playing]
1150
00:56:55,788 --> 00:56:59,708
[Dale]
I got traded to the Yankees in 1985.
1151
00:56:59,708 --> 00:57:02,670
Um... Dad was the manager.
1152
00:57:02,670 --> 00:57:05,673
[man] You're able to separate the family
from the manager's standpoint.
1153
00:57:05,673 --> 00:57:07,842
Is he a better guy
as a manager or a father?
1154
00:57:07,842 --> 00:57:09,552
Nah, he's good both ways.
1155
00:57:10,136 --> 00:57:11,720
He's always smiling, I give him that.
1156
00:57:11,720 --> 00:57:15,391
[Dale] We had a good team,
but we got off to a rough start.
1157
00:57:15,391 --> 00:57:17,268
[commentator]
Griffey, and nobody can get it.
1158
00:57:17,268 --> 00:57:20,604
[Dale] But there was never a doubt
that we were going to have
1159
00:57:20,604 --> 00:57:22,606
a long winning streak at some point.
1160
00:57:22,606 --> 00:57:26,902
[woman 1] Does the best moment managing
ever compare with the best moment playing?
1161
00:57:27,653 --> 00:57:30,156
Playing's the best. I like that.
1162
00:57:30,156 --> 00:57:32,950
[woman 2]
This from the manager on the hot seat,
1163
00:57:32,950 --> 00:57:36,120
now with George Steinbrenner
breathing down his neck.
1164
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:39,832
[Garagiola] Don't worry about Yogi.
I tell you, Yogi is a survivor.
1165
00:57:39,832 --> 00:57:42,626
I said, "Yog, how's he treating you?"
He said, "Don't worry about it."
1166
00:57:42,626 --> 00:57:44,420
I said, "Is he on you a lot?"
1167
00:57:44,420 --> 00:57:47,006
Here it comes.
He said, "We agree different."
1168
00:57:47,006 --> 00:57:49,466
[audience laughing]
1169
00:57:49,466 --> 00:57:51,927
You threw a pack of cigarettes
at George Steinbrenner?
1170
00:57:51,927 --> 00:57:54,346
- Wait a second.
- That's one time I lost my temper.
1171
00:57:55,514 --> 00:57:57,474
- So that happens.
- Right.
1172
00:57:57,474 --> 00:58:01,562
There is a Yogi watch that is being
conducted in New York, isn't it?
1173
00:58:01,562 --> 00:58:06,066
It's the tough job of the manager
under George Steinbrenner.
1174
00:58:06,066 --> 00:58:08,027
[Dale] The players loved him.
1175
00:58:08,027 --> 00:58:11,155
Dad would talk after every loss and say:
1176
00:58:11,155 --> 00:58:14,617
"Don't worry. We'll get them.
This is too good a team.
1177
00:58:14,617 --> 00:58:18,996
We know we'll contend when it comes
down to it at the end of the year."
1178
00:58:18,996 --> 00:58:20,247
And we all knew it.
1179
00:58:21,415 --> 00:58:23,292
[Lindsay]
The Yankees got off to a slow start,
1180
00:58:23,292 --> 00:58:25,628
but Dale was playing
some of the best ball of his career,
1181
00:58:25,628 --> 00:58:29,006
batting .343 through the first 16 games.
1182
00:58:29,590 --> 00:58:31,800
[commentator]
And there's another hit by Berra!
1183
00:58:32,927 --> 00:58:35,679
{\an8}[Lindsay]
Then it all came to a screeching halt.
1184
00:58:37,598 --> 00:58:39,391
[commentator 1]
That's a shot up the middle.
1185
00:58:39,391 --> 00:58:42,770
A diving stop by Cruz! Over to Guillen...
1186
00:58:42,770 --> 00:58:45,022
[commentator 2]
The White Sox climbed above .500,
1187
00:58:45,022 --> 00:58:48,025
with a three-game wipeout
of slumping New York,
1188
00:58:48,025 --> 00:58:51,320
and that smash put the Sox ahead to stay.
1189
00:58:51,946 --> 00:58:54,865
[Dale] I go back into the clubhouse,
1190
00:58:54,865 --> 00:58:56,742
I see some players crying.
1191
00:58:57,284 --> 00:58:59,161
And I'm like, "What happened here?"
1192
00:58:59,870 --> 00:59:03,249
And Don Baylor says,
"They fired your dad."
1193
00:59:03,249 --> 00:59:04,375
I said, "What?"
1194
00:59:04,375 --> 00:59:07,503
What did George say to you?
How did you find out?
1195
00:59:07,503 --> 00:59:10,005
George didn't say anything.
Clyde King told me.
1196
00:59:10,005 --> 00:59:12,258
{\an8}[Allen] The indignity of it.
1197
00:59:12,258 --> 00:59:16,136
{\an8}He asks an assistant
to go tell Yogi Berra,
1198
00:59:16,136 --> 00:59:20,933
{\an8}who contributed as much
to the Yankees as any man ever,
1199
00:59:20,933 --> 00:59:23,269
maybe as much or more than Babe Ruth,
1200
00:59:24,353 --> 00:59:26,647
and sends an assistant to fire him.
1201
00:59:26,647 --> 00:59:28,148
[man] What'd he say?
1202
00:59:28,148 --> 00:59:30,109
What'd he say? I was dismissed.
1203
00:59:30,109 --> 00:59:33,112
[man] How's Dale taking this? Did you
and he have a chance to talk at all?
1204
00:59:33,112 --> 00:59:36,365
Oh, yeah, I talked to him today,
and I said, "You gotta keep playing."
1205
00:59:36,365 --> 00:59:40,244
They got a good manager in Billy Martin.
Billy's my friend.
1206
00:59:40,244 --> 00:59:44,123
- [man] What do you think about it?
- What do I think about...?
1207
00:59:44,123 --> 00:59:46,292
There's not much to think about it.
1208
00:59:46,292 --> 00:59:51,672
Well, Dad asked if he could ride
on the team bus to the airport
1209
00:59:51,672 --> 00:59:55,801
and sit in his manager's spot,
where he always sat.
1210
00:59:55,801 --> 00:59:58,053
And we stopped,
1211
00:59:58,053 --> 01:00:01,140
and as he stood up to leave,
the entire bus got up,
1212
01:00:01,140 --> 01:00:04,977
gave him a standing ovation
as he was gonna go home.
1213
01:00:05,477 --> 01:00:07,771
Now, you know, that--
1214
01:00:07,771 --> 01:00:10,149
Don't think that's ever
happened before in sports.
1215
01:00:10,149 --> 01:00:11,859
{\an8}[man] What's the reaction of the players?
1216
01:00:13,319 --> 01:00:16,196
{\an8}Well, the players liked Yogi.
1217
01:00:16,739 --> 01:00:21,076
{\an8}How are they going to react to Billy,
it remains to be seen.
1218
01:00:21,076 --> 01:00:22,911
[Mattingly] It angered a lot of guys.
1219
01:00:22,911 --> 01:00:26,165
I think that lack of respect
is what caused the anger.
1220
01:00:26,165 --> 01:00:28,917
{\an8}What is that? What do you call that?
1221
01:00:28,917 --> 01:00:31,462
{\an8}You just turning him out to the pasture?
1222
01:00:31,462 --> 01:00:33,922
{\an8}I mean, that was no pride, tradition.
1223
01:00:33,922 --> 01:00:35,215
{\an8}That wasn't respect.
1224
01:00:35,215 --> 01:00:37,551
[man]
Many, like team leader Willie Randolph,
1225
01:00:37,551 --> 01:00:39,845
felt the move wasn't really necessary.
1226
01:00:39,845 --> 01:00:43,307
{\an8}I don't think the change is gonna be
a shot in the arm or anything like that.
1227
01:00:43,307 --> 01:00:46,018
I don't think we need that.
We just need a few breaks here and there.
1228
01:00:46,018 --> 01:00:48,437
Uh, we could've done that with Yogi.
1229
01:00:48,437 --> 01:00:51,482
We were all shocked and upset.
We were mad, really.
1230
01:00:51,482 --> 01:00:54,610
We were upset
because he didn't deserve that.
1231
01:00:54,610 --> 01:00:59,073
And we really felt genuinely sorry
for the fact that he lost his job
1232
01:00:59,073 --> 01:01:01,033
because we didn't get off to a good start.
1233
01:01:01,825 --> 01:01:02,659
It was--
1234
01:01:03,285 --> 01:01:07,623
It was heartbreaking to see
that man walk away like that, you know,
1235
01:01:07,623 --> 01:01:11,251
and treated like that, really,
because of who he was.
1236
01:01:11,251 --> 01:01:12,461
[Tony] He was the Yankees.
1237
01:01:12,461 --> 01:01:15,214
I don't care what they say about
other guys. He was the Yankees.
1238
01:01:15,214 --> 01:01:18,133
For his--
Not just 'cause he could play ball.
1239
01:01:18,842 --> 01:01:20,969
{\an8}'Cause he was part of the thread.
1240
01:01:20,969 --> 01:01:24,765
{\an8}And you can't treat people
like they're serfs.
1241
01:01:25,599 --> 01:01:27,101
{\an8}[Bobby] It was the biggest mistake
1242
01:01:27,101 --> 01:01:30,020
{\an8}that George Steinbrenner ever made
in the baseball game,
1243
01:01:30,020 --> 01:01:35,651
and certainly with the New York Yankees,
because people loved Yogi Berra.
1244
01:01:35,651 --> 01:01:37,694
Steinbrenner should have
his head examined.
1245
01:01:37,694 --> 01:01:39,988
He never knows
whether he's coming or going.
1246
01:01:39,988 --> 01:01:43,075
Billy Martin equals him.
They deserve one another.
1247
01:01:43,075 --> 01:01:46,120
I've never liked Billy Martin.
I don't like George Steinbrenner either.
1248
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:47,871
I am a fan of Yogi's though.
1249
01:01:47,871 --> 01:01:49,957
How do you like that?
Steinbrenner fired him.
1250
01:01:49,957 --> 01:01:53,168
It's like firing Winnie-the-Pooh,
for crying out loud.
1251
01:01:53,168 --> 01:01:56,380
[lilting music playing]
1252
01:01:56,380 --> 01:01:58,340
{\an8}[Lindsay] It took a lot to make Yogi mad,
1253
01:01:58,340 --> 01:02:01,593
{\an8}but the way his firing went down
made him furious,
1254
01:02:01,593 --> 01:02:04,471
and he swore he'd never return
to Yankee Stadium
1255
01:02:04,471 --> 01:02:07,057
as long as Steinbrenner was in charge.
1256
01:02:07,057 --> 01:02:08,934
[Yogi] He didn't tell me I was fired.
1257
01:02:08,934 --> 01:02:11,645
He sent somebody else to get fired,
and I didn't like that.
1258
01:02:12,271 --> 01:02:14,481
{\an8}Said, "I'll never go back
to Yankee Stadium."
1259
01:02:15,399 --> 01:02:19,361
{\an8}I would very much like Yogi
to come back. Very much.
1260
01:02:19,361 --> 01:02:23,407
- He feels you went back on your word.
- Oh, yeah? I don't want to--
1261
01:02:23,407 --> 01:02:26,660
You said he was there for 162 games,
and 16 and he was out.
1262
01:02:26,660 --> 01:02:27,744
Yeah, well...
1263
01:02:28,787 --> 01:02:32,291
If he feels I did that to him,
I apologize, but I can't...
1264
01:02:32,291 --> 01:02:34,084
[man]
Do you have regrets over that decision?
1265
01:02:34,084 --> 01:02:37,713
If that's accurately stated,
definitely have it.
1266
01:02:37,713 --> 01:02:40,466
[man] Do you have regrets
over firing Yogi Berra after 16 games?
1267
01:02:40,466 --> 01:02:43,093
I have regrets
over letting a lot of people go.
1268
01:02:43,093 --> 01:02:44,428
But what about Yogi?
1269
01:02:44,428 --> 01:02:46,472
[pensive music playing]
1270
01:02:58,192 --> 01:03:01,361
[Lindsay] After that, I didn't have
any memories of Yankee Stadium
1271
01:03:01,361 --> 01:03:03,071
because we just didn't go.
1272
01:03:03,071 --> 01:03:05,991
Grandpa was so separated from this team
1273
01:03:05,991 --> 01:03:09,077
that he'd been
so involved with his entire life.
1274
01:03:09,077 --> 01:03:13,248
[man] Three boys and eight grandchildren
live near their home in Montclair.
1275
01:03:13,248 --> 01:03:15,876
But for many years, Yogi was on the road.
1276
01:03:15,876 --> 01:03:17,669
[Lindsay]
The Yankees tried to lure Yogi back
1277
01:03:17,669 --> 01:03:20,464
by dedicating a plaque to him
in Monument Park.
1278
01:03:20,464 --> 01:03:22,466
I'll never come back to the stadium again.
1279
01:03:22,466 --> 01:03:24,259
- [man] As long as he's there?
- Yeah.
1280
01:03:24,259 --> 01:03:26,929
[commentator]
Yankees win! The Yankees win!
1281
01:03:26,929 --> 01:03:31,058
[Torre] When we won
the World Series in '96, I called Yogi,
1282
01:03:31,058 --> 01:03:34,228
{\an8}and I said, "Yogi, you think
you could come out to the stadium
1283
01:03:34,228 --> 01:03:36,980
{\an8}to present me with my World Series ring?"
1284
01:03:36,980 --> 01:03:39,483
And he was touched,
and he told me, he said:
1285
01:03:39,483 --> 01:03:42,361
"But, no, I'm not gonna go there."
1286
01:03:42,361 --> 01:03:47,741
{\an8}Like, Uncle Yogi was a nice guy,
but don't get him mad.
1287
01:03:47,741 --> 01:03:51,245
{\an8}He did not step foot in Yankee Stadium.
1288
01:03:51,245 --> 01:03:53,205
He didn't talk to anybody.
1289
01:03:53,205 --> 01:03:56,500
He was loved
by so many people in this country.
1290
01:03:56,500 --> 01:04:00,963
Not to have him around
a ballpark was crucial.
1291
01:04:00,963 --> 01:04:03,465
You know, you need him there, okay?
1292
01:04:03,465 --> 01:04:05,634
But he's not gonna go to the park.
1293
01:04:05,634 --> 01:04:10,639
So if we can't have him at the park,
then we need to have him somewhere else.
1294
01:04:10,639 --> 01:04:12,099
Let's put him on TV.
1295
01:04:12,099 --> 01:04:15,394
[announcer] Travels with Yogi Berra,
brought to you by Amtrak.
1296
01:04:15,394 --> 01:04:18,564
This train is so comfortable,
you don't have to concentrate on relaxing.
1297
01:04:18,564 --> 01:04:20,274
Now I just make Stove Top.
1298
01:04:20,274 --> 01:04:23,151
{\an8}[Lindsay] He spent a lot of time in exile
making commercials.
1299
01:04:23,151 --> 01:04:25,696
You can taste how good they are
just by eating them.
1300
01:04:25,696 --> 01:04:27,531
"Mr. Berra, will you sign my ball?"
1301
01:04:27,531 --> 01:04:30,826
{\an8}- Mr. Berra, will you sign my ball?
- Sure.
1302
01:04:30,826 --> 01:04:33,161
Hey, I like these sneakers.
1303
01:04:33,161 --> 01:04:35,205
[Torre]
I said, "Who's the commercial for?"
1304
01:04:35,205 --> 01:04:37,583
{\an8}He says, "Amtrak."
1305
01:04:37,583 --> 01:04:40,210
I said, "Okay." Well, it was Aflac.
1306
01:04:40,210 --> 01:04:42,754
Not too close.
What do you think, I got that insurance?
1307
01:04:42,754 --> 01:04:45,382
- What insurance is that, Yogi?
- Aflac.
1308
01:04:46,300 --> 01:04:48,218
The one you really need to have.
1309
01:04:48,218 --> 01:04:50,887
If you don't have it,
that's why you need it.
1310
01:04:51,763 --> 01:04:54,266
- Need what?
- Aflac.
1311
01:04:54,266 --> 01:04:56,852
Classic, that's one
of the greatest commercials ever.
1312
01:04:56,852 --> 01:05:00,814
If you get hurt and miss work,
it won't hurt to miss work.
1313
01:05:01,398 --> 01:05:02,274
Ah!
1314
01:05:02,274 --> 01:05:05,110
I used to catch baseballs.
Now I'm pitching beers.
1315
01:05:05,110 --> 01:05:07,571
You see the one
with the Miller Lite that's got--
1316
01:05:07,571 --> 01:05:10,198
Jason Alexander is one of the guys in it.
1317
01:05:10,198 --> 01:05:12,242
He's talking about,
"If it's less filling..."
1318
01:05:12,242 --> 01:05:14,369
It's less filling than it would've been,
1319
01:05:14,369 --> 01:05:16,747
if it was more filling
than they didn't want it to be.
1320
01:05:16,747 --> 01:05:19,958
If it had more calories
than it didn't have in the first place.
1321
01:05:19,958 --> 01:05:21,710
You couldn't write it any better.
1322
01:05:21,710 --> 01:05:23,795
But I figured it was easy for Dad to do
1323
01:05:23,795 --> 01:05:25,714
because that's the way
he would talk anyway.
1324
01:05:25,714 --> 01:05:28,675
- [crowd applauding]
- [Bush] Yogi's been an inspiration to me.
1325
01:05:29,968 --> 01:05:31,720
Not only because of his baseball skills,
1326
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:34,931
but of course for the enduring mark
he left on the English language.
1327
01:05:34,931 --> 01:05:37,017
[all laughing]
1328
01:05:40,979 --> 01:05:44,107
The Yogi-isms.
Let's talk about the Yogi-isms.
1329
01:05:44,107 --> 01:05:47,986
[man] Yogi Berra has eight entries
listed in the latest edition
1330
01:05:47,986 --> 01:05:50,197
of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
1331
01:05:50,197 --> 01:05:53,700
That's more
than any living American president.
1332
01:05:53,700 --> 01:06:00,332
{\an8}A Yogi-ism is something that may appear
to not make sense but actually does.
1333
01:06:00,332 --> 01:06:03,335
{\an8}-"You can observe a lot by watching"?
- You can.
1334
01:06:03,335 --> 01:06:05,671
{\an8}- I've watched a lot.
- Yeah?
1335
01:06:05,671 --> 01:06:09,675
{\an8}Like Yogi Berra said,
"Déjà vu all over again."
1336
01:06:09,675 --> 01:06:12,678
It's when Maris and Mantle hit
the home runs, back-to-back.
1337
01:06:12,678 --> 01:06:18,558
{\an8}What you hear them say or what you read
doesn't make sense at first,
1338
01:06:18,558 --> 01:06:20,686
{\an8}and then it makes perfect sense.
1339
01:06:20,686 --> 01:06:24,731
It is contradictory within itself
and gorgeous.
1340
01:06:24,731 --> 01:06:28,694
"When you get to a fork in the road,
take it." Well, that's... What?
1341
01:06:29,319 --> 01:06:31,780
Well, there's usually two ways to go,
1342
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:35,659
but he's saying,
take the one that's the best one.
1343
01:06:36,952 --> 01:06:37,953
I think.
1344
01:06:38,870 --> 01:06:42,624
He lived at the back end of,
like, a curved drive.
1345
01:06:42,624 --> 01:06:46,837
[man] This is the actual fork in the road
Yogi was talking about.
1346
01:06:46,837 --> 01:06:49,881
It's right near his home
in Montclair, New Jersey.
1347
01:06:49,881 --> 01:06:52,843
No matter which way you went,
you could wind up at his house.
1348
01:06:52,843 --> 01:06:55,303
{\an8}-"90 percent of the game is half mental."
- That's right.
1349
01:06:55,303 --> 01:06:58,056
{\an8}- That doesn't strike you odd?
- [chuckles] No.
1350
01:06:58,056 --> 01:06:59,474
{\an8}What's it mean?
1351
01:06:59,474 --> 01:07:02,185
{\an8}- I really don't know. I just say it.
- [laughing]
1352
01:07:02,185 --> 01:07:05,272
{\an8}I don't even know I say them.
I don't know. I can't say them.
1353
01:07:05,272 --> 01:07:07,357
My kids could catch me right away.
1354
01:07:07,357 --> 01:07:09,234
Mom said, "You're lost, Yogi."
1355
01:07:09,234 --> 01:07:11,528
He said,
"Yeah, but we're making good time."
1356
01:07:12,821 --> 01:07:15,657
He said, "The only reason I'm wearing
these gloves is 'cause of my hands."
1357
01:07:15,657 --> 01:07:17,117
[Bobby] They all made sense though.
1358
01:07:17,117 --> 01:07:20,454
Just like he said, "Nobody goes to that
restaurant anymore. It's too crowded."
1359
01:07:20,454 --> 01:07:23,498
[Dale] "It's at Biggie's restaurant,
and nobody goes there anymore.
1360
01:07:23,498 --> 01:07:26,042
It's too crowded," means his crowd.
1361
01:07:26,042 --> 01:07:29,212
"I don't go to restaurants
because it's too crowded."
1362
01:07:29,212 --> 01:07:30,338
It's a wonderful thing.
1363
01:07:30,338 --> 01:07:35,343
{\an8}My favorite Yogi-ism,
and I hope it's authentic:
1364
01:07:35,343 --> 01:07:37,971
"Always go to your friends' funerals.
1365
01:07:37,971 --> 01:07:40,307
Otherwise, they won't go to yours."
1366
01:07:40,932 --> 01:07:43,018
Who can dispute the wisdom of that?
1367
01:07:43,018 --> 01:07:45,520
I love all of the Yogi stuff,
1368
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:50,066
and I long ago ceased to wonder
which are genuine and which are made-up.
1369
01:07:50,066 --> 01:07:52,235
Actually, I made up some Yogi-isms.
1370
01:07:52,235 --> 01:07:54,154
{\an8}- Should I talk about that?
- [man] Yeah, sure.
1371
01:07:55,655 --> 01:07:59,201
{\an8}"The other guys are only
a figment of their imaginations."
1372
01:07:59,868 --> 01:08:02,621
{\an8}That was one that I wrote.
But anyway, um...
1373
01:08:04,122 --> 01:08:08,543
We worked on a lot of projects with him,
including several TV commercials.
1374
01:08:08,543 --> 01:08:10,545
{\an8}Who says Yoo-hoo's just for kids?
1375
01:08:10,545 --> 01:08:13,131
{\an8}Get Yoo-hoo from Iroquois Brands.
1376
01:08:13,131 --> 01:08:17,135
[Carol] People often ask what made him
such a great pitchman,
1377
01:08:17,135 --> 01:08:20,347
and I think it was because
he was so genuine.
1378
01:08:20,889 --> 01:08:24,142
"Whatever you do, don't get too caught up
in whatever you're doing."
1379
01:08:24,142 --> 01:08:26,561
I'm not sure if I wrote that or he did.
1380
01:08:26,561 --> 01:08:28,939
I'd spend so much time on the script
1381
01:08:28,939 --> 01:08:33,401
that I really don't know what I wrote
in his voice versus what he did.
1382
01:08:33,401 --> 01:08:36,363
One of the Yogi-isms is,
"I didn't say everything I said."
1383
01:08:36,363 --> 01:08:39,991
And I think a lot of them
were made up by media.
1384
01:08:39,991 --> 01:08:42,619
I think Joe Garagiola embellished
a lot of them.
1385
01:08:42,619 --> 01:08:46,665
Free to deny it, but I've heard that
you used to write some of his material.
1386
01:08:47,707 --> 01:08:48,875
I didn't write it.
1387
01:08:50,794 --> 01:08:53,338
I might have made up some of it,
but not all of it.
1388
01:08:53,338 --> 01:08:55,423
"Oh, boy, do I got a headache."
1389
01:08:55,966 --> 01:08:58,051
No, I think that was mine, not his.
1390
01:08:58,552 --> 01:09:03,431
The ones that are fake, to me, at least,
are immediately obvious as fakes
1391
01:09:03,431 --> 01:09:05,725
because they're just kind of silly,
stupid things.
1392
01:09:05,725 --> 01:09:07,894
If they didn't make sense,
they weren't true.
1393
01:09:07,894 --> 01:09:09,688
They weren't Yogi-isms.
1394
01:09:09,688 --> 01:09:13,275
- The Yogi-isms, they all made sense.
- Right. And I believe that.
1395
01:09:13,859 --> 01:09:17,612
{\an8}I think one of the quotes
that is most, perhaps,
1396
01:09:17,612 --> 01:09:21,992
{\an8}psychologically revealing about Yogi is:
1397
01:09:21,992 --> 01:09:24,870
"If you can't imitate him,
don't copy him."
1398
01:09:25,453 --> 01:09:29,165
You develop an understanding
of who you are first.
1399
01:09:29,165 --> 01:09:30,834
And that's the most important thing.
1400
01:09:30,834 --> 01:09:35,839
The other things that other players do
are not necessarily for you.
1401
01:09:36,381 --> 01:09:39,634
If it's not gonna work for you,
you gotta know yourself.
1402
01:09:39,634 --> 01:09:42,554
And what he's encouraging
is more self-awareness.
1403
01:09:42,554 --> 01:09:44,764
{\an8}[man] "When you come
to a fork in the road, take it."
1404
01:09:44,764 --> 01:09:48,476
{\an8}You're talking about baseball, but you're
also talking about life, aren't you?
1405
01:09:48,476 --> 01:09:49,394
{\an8}[Yogi] Right.
1406
01:09:49,936 --> 01:09:51,187
[Douglas] "Simplexity."
1407
01:09:51,187 --> 01:09:54,983
Being able to take something
that's really complex
1408
01:09:54,983 --> 01:09:59,738
and boil it down into its simplest terms,
so that other people can understand it.
1409
01:09:59,738 --> 01:10:02,824
And I think that's exactly
what Yogi was able to do.
1410
01:10:04,117 --> 01:10:09,205
[Billy] You know, anyone who ever thought
he wasn't smart missed out.
1411
01:10:09,205 --> 01:10:11,666
He was so wise.
1412
01:10:12,292 --> 01:10:14,002
Not just about what pitch to call,
1413
01:10:14,002 --> 01:10:17,130
'cause he did call the perfect game
and ten world championships.
1414
01:10:17,130 --> 01:10:19,549
He was wise about life.
1415
01:10:20,258 --> 01:10:24,179
I think he was a genius.
I think he was a genius person.
1416
01:10:24,804 --> 01:10:30,143
{\an8}Now it's my turn. I want to give some of
my favorite advice to the graduates.
1417
01:10:30,894 --> 01:10:34,648
{\an8}First, never give up
because it ain't over till it's over.
1418
01:10:34,648 --> 01:10:36,733
{\an8}[graduates cheering]
1419
01:10:37,776 --> 01:10:40,904
[Vicki] We could look at the way
he used his language
1420
01:10:40,904 --> 01:10:42,864
{\an8}and we could say, "Oh, that's silly."
1421
01:10:42,864 --> 01:10:47,118
{\an8}But once we say, "That's silly,"
we give it a second thought and we say:
1422
01:10:47,118 --> 01:10:50,330
{\an8}"He's right.
He's telling us something that's true."
1423
01:10:50,330 --> 01:10:54,084
During the years ahead, when you come
to the fork in the road, take it.
1424
01:10:54,084 --> 01:10:56,586
[Vicki]
And the language doesn't tell us that.
1425
01:10:56,586 --> 01:11:01,716
He's telling us that, without using
the language we think he ought to use.
1426
01:11:01,716 --> 01:11:03,385
That makes us think.
1427
01:11:04,010 --> 01:11:07,597
And then we realize the truth is in him,
not in his words.
1428
01:11:10,934 --> 01:11:12,102
Yo, guys, there's Yogi.
1429
01:11:12,102 --> 01:11:13,853
♪ You can't top... ♪
1430
01:11:14,270 --> 01:11:15,689
- Yo...
- Gi.
1431
01:11:15,689 --> 01:11:16,940
Yogi.
1432
01:11:17,983 --> 01:11:20,902
[Lindsay] Even though he was having fun
making all of those commercials...
1433
01:11:20,902 --> 01:11:22,737
Who the heck is this guy, Phil Harmonic?
1434
01:11:23,446 --> 01:11:26,116
...I know it was tough for him
to be away from the Yankees.
1435
01:11:26,116 --> 01:11:28,243
But he stood firm, and as always,
1436
01:11:28,243 --> 01:11:30,745
Grammy Carmen stood right there
by his side.
1437
01:11:30,745 --> 01:11:32,205
She was his rock.
1438
01:11:32,205 --> 01:11:34,374
[Billy] She still had a big crush on him.
1439
01:11:35,375 --> 01:11:39,129
You could see it. You could just--
They were so cute together.
1440
01:11:39,129 --> 01:11:43,008
[man] When someone asked him about Carmen,
another Yogi-ism was born.
1441
01:11:43,008 --> 01:11:47,929
He said, "We have a good time together,
even when we're not together."
1442
01:11:47,929 --> 01:11:51,141
- I bet that made sense to you, huh?
- Yeah, absolutely.
1443
01:11:51,141 --> 01:11:53,435
I know exactly what he means by that.
1444
01:11:54,978 --> 01:11:55,812
Okay.
1445
01:11:55,812 --> 01:12:00,108
He's happy to be away from me for a while,
but he can't wait until he gets home.
1446
01:12:02,777 --> 01:12:04,904
[Lindsay]
The best thing about having Grandpa around
1447
01:12:04,904 --> 01:12:07,782
was that he was able to spend
more time with his family.
1448
01:12:07,782 --> 01:12:10,076
I'm the oldest of his 11 grandkids,
1449
01:12:10,076 --> 01:12:12,037
and I know I speak for all of us
when I say
1450
01:12:12,037 --> 01:12:15,498
we'll cherish those years we had with him
for the rest of our lives.
1451
01:12:16,041 --> 01:12:18,460
But it wasn't just his grandkids
who needed him.
1452
01:12:18,460 --> 01:12:20,378
His boys needed him too.
1453
01:12:22,505 --> 01:12:26,885
[Dale] '82, '83, and '84, I was one of the
best shortstops in the National League.
1454
01:12:26,885 --> 01:12:29,220
I should've got better every year.
1455
01:12:29,220 --> 01:12:35,143
And it was during those years
where I started to use cocaine,
1456
01:12:35,143 --> 01:12:38,396
and I started to miss too much sleep.
1457
01:12:38,396 --> 01:12:40,940
There was more testimony
about big-league drug abuse
1458
01:12:40,940 --> 01:12:42,484
and more players implicated
1459
01:12:42,484 --> 01:12:45,070
at the baseball cocaine trial
in Pittsburgh Monday.
1460
01:12:45,070 --> 01:12:47,906
[man 1] Dale Berra said he used cocaine
in the Major Leagues,
1461
01:12:47,906 --> 01:12:49,866
in the Minors, even in Spring Training.
1462
01:12:49,866 --> 01:12:52,410
{\an8}Berra said he bought cocaine
from Curtis Strong.
1463
01:12:52,410 --> 01:12:54,245
{\an8}He shared cocaine with other Pirates.
1464
01:12:54,245 --> 01:12:57,415
He also said he got cocaine
from the man inside this uniform,
1465
01:12:57,415 --> 01:12:58,875
the Pittsburgh Parrot.
1466
01:12:59,542 --> 01:13:01,586
[man 2] Yankee manager Billy Martin says
he's the one
1467
01:13:01,586 --> 01:13:03,421
who warned Yogi of Dale's drug use.
1468
01:13:03,421 --> 01:13:05,715
Reached at home, Yogi had no comment.
1469
01:13:06,299 --> 01:13:09,761
[Dale] I knew something was gonna change,
and I knew something was different
1470
01:13:09,761 --> 01:13:12,305
the second he said, "Get on up here."
1471
01:13:12,806 --> 01:13:15,266
And when I went up to the house,
1472
01:13:15,850 --> 01:13:18,520
uh, I saw my brother's car
is out in front.
1473
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:21,189
Oh, yeah. It was a tough time for my dad.
1474
01:13:21,189 --> 01:13:23,650
I felt bad for my dad. I really did.
1475
01:13:23,650 --> 01:13:27,112
I felt bad for him,
but he handled it really well.
1476
01:13:27,112 --> 01:13:30,281
It was hard,
I mean, but it had to be done.
1477
01:13:30,281 --> 01:13:33,535
We had to, finally,
because he might have died.
1478
01:13:33,535 --> 01:13:35,328
He might have killed himself.
1479
01:13:36,121 --> 01:13:37,872
He simply said to me that:
1480
01:13:39,415 --> 01:13:41,709
"I'm not gonna be your father anymore,
1481
01:13:41,709 --> 01:13:45,922
and your two brothers sitting over there
aren't gonna be your brothers anymore.
1482
01:13:45,922 --> 01:13:49,008
And your mom in the kitchen
isn't gonna be your mom anymore
1483
01:13:49,008 --> 01:13:51,803
if you continue upon the same path.
1484
01:13:51,803 --> 01:13:55,473
You're gonna have to make a choice,
and you're gonna have to make it now."
1485
01:13:55,473 --> 01:13:57,934
And it was right then,
1486
01:13:57,934 --> 01:14:03,356
in that five-second, uh... span,
1487
01:14:03,356 --> 01:14:08,069
where I knew that I had been struck
1488
01:14:08,069 --> 01:14:12,115
with some kind of a gift from heaven,
a lightning bolt.
1489
01:14:12,115 --> 01:14:13,992
You can say whatever you want.
1490
01:14:13,992 --> 01:14:17,162
But I knew from that second on,
1491
01:14:17,162 --> 01:14:21,666
I was never going to have another drug
or a drink again the rest of my life.
1492
01:14:21,666 --> 01:14:24,210
[gentle music playing]
1493
01:14:24,210 --> 01:14:28,882
Listen, I played ten years
at the elite level, and I'm proud of that,
1494
01:14:28,882 --> 01:14:30,633
but I should've been better.
1495
01:14:31,384 --> 01:14:34,345
I had the talent to be an All-Star
and I know it.
1496
01:14:35,597 --> 01:14:37,515
This book is about family.
1497
01:14:38,725 --> 01:14:44,189
It's about how the love for family
saved me from myself,
1498
01:14:44,189 --> 01:14:48,026
with a powerful intervention
that changed my life.
1499
01:14:48,026 --> 01:14:49,861
And I'm proud to say...
1500
01:14:50,486 --> 01:14:54,574
I'm 27 years sober,
going on three decades.
1501
01:15:06,336 --> 01:15:09,339
[pensive music playing]
1502
01:15:14,928 --> 01:15:19,057
[Dave] People who were very,
very close to Yogi all wanted him back.
1503
01:15:19,057 --> 01:15:20,642
I think, as the years went on,
1504
01:15:20,642 --> 01:15:23,019
{\an8}he just decided
that he wasn't gonna go back,
1505
01:15:23,019 --> 01:15:26,189
{\an8}no matter what gimmicks,
no matter what people were saying.
1506
01:15:26,189 --> 01:15:29,359
{\an8}[man] When are you gonna please come back
to the Yankees' Old-Timers' Game?
1507
01:15:29,359 --> 01:15:30,526
{\an8}We'd love to see you.
1508
01:15:30,526 --> 01:15:32,570
{\an8}Yogi, by the way,
for the benefit of viewers,
1509
01:15:32,570 --> 01:15:37,075
{\an8}does not go back to Yankee Stadium as long
as George Steinbrenner owns the team.
1510
01:15:37,075 --> 01:15:39,202
No, I don't think so.
1511
01:15:39,202 --> 01:15:42,247
{\an8}I don't know when I'm going back yet.
I don't know.
1512
01:15:42,247 --> 01:15:43,248
{\an8}[King] Why not, Yogi?
1513
01:15:43,248 --> 01:15:46,125
I always got something to do
on Old-Timers' Day.
1514
01:15:46,125 --> 01:15:47,418
Oh, Yogi.
1515
01:15:50,004 --> 01:15:53,633
All he wanted was an apology from George.
That's all it took.
1516
01:15:53,633 --> 01:15:55,510
He was never gonna go back.
1517
01:15:55,510 --> 01:15:58,554
[man] If it weren't for Yankee icon
Joe DiMaggio.
1518
01:15:58,554 --> 01:16:02,100
[George] I became very close
to Joe D. in his final years.
1519
01:16:02,642 --> 01:16:04,227
And more than once
he mentioned to me:
1520
01:16:04,227 --> 01:16:06,354
"You gotta get him back.
You gotta get him back."
1521
01:16:07,438 --> 01:16:10,733
{\an8}It weighed on him,
the relationship that had been severed.
1522
01:16:10,733 --> 01:16:15,571
{\an8}He was a bridge from the DiMaggio-era
players into the Mantle-era players.
1523
01:16:15,571 --> 01:16:18,992
Nobody represented the Yankees
better than Yogi Berra.
1524
01:16:18,992 --> 01:16:24,247
[Bob] George Steinbrenner was a
complicated and sometimes polarizing man,
1525
01:16:24,247 --> 01:16:29,252
but, for sure, George Steinbrenner
had great regard for Yankee history.
1526
01:16:29,252 --> 01:16:31,713
And it's the deepest history
of any team in baseball.
1527
01:16:31,713 --> 01:16:34,882
You can't write a history of the
New York Yankees without Yogi Berra.
1528
01:16:34,882 --> 01:16:39,262
And George Steinbrenner, who himself
could be stubborn, realized this.
1529
01:16:39,262 --> 01:16:43,224
You can't have Yogi Berra
excommunicated from the Yankees.
1530
01:16:43,224 --> 01:16:46,894
But it took Suzyn Waldman,
one of the radio voices of the Yankees,
1531
01:16:46,894 --> 01:16:48,688
to bring the two of them together.
1532
01:16:48,688 --> 01:16:52,275
{\an8}So the program director at WFAN
had called me and said:
1533
01:16:52,275 --> 01:16:54,027
{\an8}"Yogi Berra's opening a museum.
1534
01:16:54,027 --> 01:16:57,113
Wouldn't it be great
if George and Yogi made up on the air?"
1535
01:16:57,113 --> 01:16:59,324
I said, "That'd be good.
That'll happen." Click.
1536
01:16:59,324 --> 01:17:02,327
I didn't know Yogi.
My loyalty was to Mr. Steinbrenner.
1537
01:17:02,327 --> 01:17:04,787
I owe Mr. Steinbrenner a lot.
1538
01:17:04,787 --> 01:17:08,374
"George, I wanna talk to you about Yogi."
And he said, "What's wrong?"
1539
01:17:08,374 --> 01:17:12,128
As soon as he said, "What's wrong?"
I said, "Okay, go for it.
1540
01:17:12,128 --> 01:17:13,838
He wants you to apologize."
1541
01:17:13,838 --> 01:17:17,050
And he'd say,
"What does he want me to apologize for?"
1542
01:17:17,050 --> 01:17:19,510
I said, "I don't know, George.
What did you do?"
1543
01:17:19,510 --> 01:17:22,972
He said, "Well, I had him fired." I said,
"Well, there's gotta be something else."
1544
01:17:22,972 --> 01:17:24,474
He knew exactly what it was.
1545
01:17:24,474 --> 01:17:29,354
Suzyn called me and said that George is
willing to come to the Yogi Berra Museum,
1546
01:17:29,354 --> 01:17:31,189
look at Yogi in the eye,
1547
01:17:31,189 --> 01:17:34,984
shake his hand and say,
"I made a mistake and I apologize."
1548
01:17:34,984 --> 01:17:36,861
He said, "Like hell!"
1549
01:17:36,861 --> 01:17:40,907
He goes, "I don't want him in our museum,
and I don't want him here.
1550
01:17:40,907 --> 01:17:42,575
I ain't going back."
1551
01:17:43,576 --> 01:17:48,289
[Suzyn] So that night comes,
and I'm there, and I'm pacing around,
1552
01:17:48,289 --> 01:17:50,750
and I remember Tim Berra saying to me:
1553
01:17:50,750 --> 01:17:52,752
"Suzyn, why are you standing
behind a pillar?"
1554
01:17:52,752 --> 01:17:57,048
I said, "I'm just thinking about my career
going up in smoke if this doesn't work."
1555
01:17:58,007 --> 01:18:02,136
Yogi went to the door and let George in,
there's George, Yogi says, "You're late."
1556
01:18:02,136 --> 01:18:06,099
George said, "I'm not late." And then
they went into a room and had their chat.
1557
01:18:06,099 --> 01:18:08,810
They started yelling. I heard yelling.
I heard George yelling.
1558
01:18:08,810 --> 01:18:12,230
And I saw Carm go in the room,
and all of a sudden, the voices stopped.
1559
01:18:12,230 --> 01:18:14,148
She wanted this reconciliation,
1560
01:18:14,148 --> 01:18:17,610
and she wasn't gonna let
somebody's ego get in the way.
1561
01:18:17,610 --> 01:18:20,321
He said, "Yogi,
I just want to tell you that
1562
01:18:20,321 --> 01:18:24,367
I know I've made a lot of mistakes
in baseball,
1563
01:18:24,367 --> 01:18:28,037
and letting you go in that manner
was one of them."
1564
01:18:28,037 --> 01:18:29,956
And Yogi says, "That's all right, George.
1565
01:18:29,956 --> 01:18:31,999
I've made a lot of mistakes
in baseball too.
1566
01:18:31,999 --> 01:18:34,669
So let's make up and be friends."
1567
01:18:34,669 --> 01:18:36,754
- Mr. Steinbrenner, you remember Mr. Berra.
- Yes.
1568
01:18:36,754 --> 01:18:39,340
Mr. Berra, you remember Mr. Steinbrenner.
1569
01:18:39,340 --> 01:18:43,428
- [audience cheering and applauding]
- [tender music playing]
1570
01:18:46,347 --> 01:18:49,267
[man] Steinbrenner finally told Yogi
he was sorry.
1571
01:18:49,267 --> 01:18:50,977
[George] And I apologized to him,
1572
01:18:51,853 --> 01:18:54,689
and I just hope he can accept my apology.
1573
01:18:55,231 --> 01:18:57,942
- It's over.
- It's over. Yeah, it's behind us.
1574
01:18:58,526 --> 01:19:01,654
In the words of Yogi,
"It ain't over till it's over," but it is.
1575
01:19:01,654 --> 01:19:04,323
{\an8}Yes, sir. It finally happened
after nearly 14 years.
1576
01:19:04,323 --> 01:19:06,701
{\an8}Yogi and George together again.
1577
01:19:06,701 --> 01:19:08,327
{\an8}But now he'll be back.
1578
01:19:08,995 --> 01:19:10,830
{\an8}[announcer 1]
Welcome back to Yankee Stadium.
1579
01:19:10,830 --> 01:19:15,126
{\an8}The pregame ceremonies are about ready
to begin here on Yogi Berra Day.
1580
01:19:15,126 --> 01:19:19,839
[announcer 2]
Ladies and gentlemen, Yogi Berra!
1581
01:19:19,839 --> 01:19:21,716
[announcer 3] And Yogi Berra is back.
1582
01:19:30,683 --> 01:19:33,102
[announcer 1]
This is going to be a special treat, Tim,
1583
01:19:33,102 --> 01:19:36,230
because it looks like
Yogi Berra is coming out,
1584
01:19:36,230 --> 01:19:38,232
and Don Larsen is going out,
1585
01:19:38,232 --> 01:19:41,527
and Larsen will throw out
the first pitch of this game
1586
01:19:41,527 --> 01:19:47,492
in commemoration of 1956,
when Larsen pitched his perfect game,
1587
01:19:47,492 --> 01:19:50,495
the only one ever pitched
in World Series history.
1588
01:19:52,413 --> 01:19:53,998
Hello. Go out there, Yogi.
1589
01:19:53,998 --> 01:19:57,168
Go out there and jump on him.
Go ahead. No?
1590
01:19:57,168 --> 01:19:59,587
{\an8}I said, "Do you wanna catch
with the little glove?"
1591
01:19:59,587 --> 01:20:01,631
{\an8}He's like, "No, that's too small."
1592
01:20:01,631 --> 01:20:04,217
{\an8}I said, "Well, would you bless
my glove today?"
1593
01:20:04,217 --> 01:20:07,386
{\an8}So I gave him my glove,
he caught the first pitch.
1594
01:20:07,386 --> 01:20:10,806
[commentator] Perfect. Perfect.
This is absolutely perfect.
1595
01:20:10,806 --> 01:20:13,017
{\an8}And it has been a perfect day today.
1596
01:20:13,017 --> 01:20:14,894
{\an8}[Don] Then we sat and watched the game.
1597
01:20:14,894 --> 01:20:17,438
{\an8}Usually, I'm gone
after three or four innings.
1598
01:20:17,438 --> 01:20:20,024
But as time went on,
they made us both stay.
1599
01:20:20,024 --> 01:20:21,817
[commentator]
Swing and a miss, strike three.
1600
01:20:21,817 --> 01:20:25,112
[Don] We both stayed and watched him
do his marvelous performance.
1601
01:20:25,112 --> 01:20:29,242
[commentator] Nine up, nine down,
and Cone already has five strikeouts.
1602
01:20:29,242 --> 01:20:31,035
Another easy inning for Cone.
1603
01:20:32,537 --> 01:20:34,789
Popped up. Girardi.
1604
01:20:34,789 --> 01:20:36,207
[crowd cheering]
1605
01:20:36,207 --> 01:20:37,875
[Suzyn] What a play by Girardi!
1606
01:20:42,505 --> 01:20:43,548
[commentator] Brosius!
1607
01:20:45,216 --> 01:20:46,801
Nineteen in a row.
1608
01:20:50,054 --> 01:20:51,347
Got him!
1609
01:20:51,347 --> 01:20:52,974
Twenty in a row!
1610
01:20:52,974 --> 01:20:55,101
{\an8}-Can't happen, can it, Suzyn?
- [Suzyn] No, it can't.
1611
01:20:55,101 --> 01:20:57,228
{\an8}- [commentator] No way. Come on!
- [Suzyn] Why not?
1612
01:20:57,228 --> 01:21:00,273
{\an8}[commentator] Now, that would be
the coincidence of coincidences.
1613
01:21:00,273 --> 01:21:01,941
I mean, my gosh!
1614
01:21:02,692 --> 01:21:04,652
Hard... Knoblauch!
1615
01:21:05,486 --> 01:21:06,988
Two outs!
1616
01:21:06,988 --> 01:21:09,865
Oh, boy! Oh, boy!
1617
01:21:09,865 --> 01:21:12,243
[dramatic music playing]
1618
01:21:14,036 --> 01:21:17,081
Popped up and playable. Brosius!
1619
01:21:21,794 --> 01:21:25,047
David Cone has a perfect game.
1620
01:21:25,047 --> 01:21:26,841
Who better to bring in
1621
01:21:26,841 --> 01:21:30,344
but a man who pitched
the perfect game to Yogi Berra,
1622
01:21:30,344 --> 01:21:32,305
here on Yogi Berra Day?
1623
01:21:37,685 --> 01:21:42,189
I've always said that there's ghosts
in Yankee Stadium
1624
01:21:42,189 --> 01:21:46,110
because it seems like
just strange things happen all the time.
1625
01:21:46,110 --> 01:21:50,531
And for there to be a perfect game
on Yogi Berra Day,
1626
01:21:50,531 --> 01:21:53,075
it doesn't make a lot of sense.
You know what I mean?
1627
01:21:53,075 --> 01:21:56,704
But, uh, some things happen for a reason
and that was one of them.
1628
01:21:56,704 --> 01:21:59,290
Um, but I'll never forget that day.
1629
01:22:00,249 --> 01:22:01,542
[dramatic music playing]
1630
01:22:01,542 --> 01:22:03,461
[commentator] Yogi Berra.
1631
01:22:06,047 --> 01:22:10,009
[Dave] He was back with the Yankees.
He was back in baseball.
1632
01:22:10,009 --> 01:22:13,095
He'd be at the stadium
on an absolute regular basis.
1633
01:22:13,721 --> 01:22:15,389
[Yogi] I had fun with Jeter.
1634
01:22:15,389 --> 01:22:18,351
Sometimes, he strikes out
on that ball up there,
1635
01:22:18,351 --> 01:22:22,063
and I'd get on him, I'd say,
"What do you swing at that ball for?"
1636
01:22:22,063 --> 01:22:23,898
He says, "It looks good."
1637
01:22:23,898 --> 01:22:26,067
He said, "You used to swing at it."
1638
01:22:26,067 --> 01:22:28,152
I said, "But I hit it. You don't."
1639
01:22:29,028 --> 01:22:30,279
We used to go back and forth.
1640
01:22:30,279 --> 01:22:33,324
He used to always tease me because,
you know, he won ten championships.
1641
01:22:33,324 --> 01:22:35,201
And, um, you know, I told Yogi:
1642
01:22:35,201 --> 01:22:38,037
"Really, in this day and age,
it's more like five
1643
01:22:38,037 --> 01:22:41,916
because there's more teams
and there's expanded playoffs, so..."
1644
01:22:41,916 --> 01:22:45,002
Um, and he looked at me and he said,
"You can come over to my house
1645
01:22:45,002 --> 01:22:47,046
and count the rings any time you want."
1646
01:22:47,046 --> 01:22:49,090
So that ended the conversation.
1647
01:22:50,007 --> 01:22:53,219
A man that was so talented
and so good at what he did
1648
01:22:53,219 --> 01:22:56,931
had the ability to make you feel
like he was your grandfather.
1649
01:22:56,931 --> 01:22:59,016
We all lit up
when he came to the ballpark.
1650
01:22:59,016 --> 01:23:00,726
[announcer] Yogi Berra!
1651
01:23:00,726 --> 01:23:02,770
[crowd cheering and applauding]
1652
01:23:04,271 --> 01:23:06,440
[Suzyn]
What I loved about Old-Timers' Day...
1653
01:23:06,440 --> 01:23:09,235
It's not so much anymore
'cause a lot of those people are gone.
1654
01:23:09,235 --> 01:23:11,445
...if you look into the stands,
1655
01:23:11,946 --> 01:23:15,491
people are telling their little kids
who these people are.
1656
01:23:19,495 --> 01:23:20,621
That's baseball.
1657
01:23:22,873 --> 01:23:25,209
You can see them,
they point, "See that guy?"
1658
01:23:25,209 --> 01:23:27,253
And it only happens for the great ones.
1659
01:23:27,253 --> 01:23:30,464
[Hal] When he came back,
all was right in the Yankee world again.
1660
01:23:30,464 --> 01:23:34,719
He would oftentimes be up in our box,
with Carmen, his beloved wife.
1661
01:23:34,719 --> 01:23:37,888
What a marriage,
unbelievable, that they had.
1662
01:23:37,888 --> 01:23:41,642
And he was just always very humble,
always very kind.
1663
01:23:41,642 --> 01:23:43,477
He was just class.
1664
01:23:43,477 --> 01:23:46,647
[announcer] A ten-time world champion,
1665
01:23:46,647 --> 01:23:47,940
Yogi Berra!
1666
01:23:47,940 --> 01:23:50,526
[crowd cheering]
1667
01:23:50,526 --> 01:23:53,821
The last time I saw Yogi, uh, it was...
1668
01:23:53,821 --> 01:23:56,282
I believe it was at his museum.
1669
01:23:56,282 --> 01:23:58,743
Carmen took my arm, and we were walking.
1670
01:23:58,743 --> 01:24:03,038
And Yogi was in front,
and Carmen says to me, "Joe, I love you."
1671
01:24:03,038 --> 01:24:04,498
I said, "Shh!"
1672
01:24:04,498 --> 01:24:06,292
I said, "Yogi's right there."
1673
01:24:06,292 --> 01:24:09,378
She says, "He can't hear anyway.
Don't worry about it."
1674
01:24:09,378 --> 01:24:12,715
It was-- It was so adorable, those two.
1675
01:24:12,715 --> 01:24:14,633
It was priceless.
1676
01:24:14,633 --> 01:24:16,719
But, uh, they were deeply in love.
1677
01:24:16,719 --> 01:24:18,846
[tender music playing]
1678
01:24:18,846 --> 01:24:20,848
This one says,
"Darling, when I'm around you,
1679
01:24:20,848 --> 01:24:24,101
I'm always in the mood for love.
I love you so much."
1680
01:24:24,101 --> 01:24:27,688
"Darling, you said I won't have
any time to miss you.
1681
01:24:28,189 --> 01:24:30,858
What do you mean? I do miss you, always.
1682
01:24:30,858 --> 01:24:32,985
I am always thinking about you."
1683
01:24:35,780 --> 01:24:37,323
That's enough of that.
1684
01:24:39,575 --> 01:24:41,702
If you had bet me a million dollars,
1685
01:24:41,702 --> 01:24:46,332
I wouldn't have taken the bet
that Grammy would go before Grandpa.
1686
01:24:47,082 --> 01:24:49,460
[Larry]
I remember the last time he saw Mom.
1687
01:24:49,460 --> 01:24:51,378
He-- We were all together.
1688
01:24:51,378 --> 01:24:53,130
And I can't do it.
1689
01:24:56,967 --> 01:24:58,761
Mom's final day.
1690
01:24:59,303 --> 01:25:01,263
Dad was not doing great.
1691
01:25:01,263 --> 01:25:04,600
He got down to Mom's room
and saw Mom in the bed.
1692
01:25:05,684 --> 01:25:09,021
And he got up out of his wheelchair,
and all of a sudden,
1693
01:25:09,021 --> 01:25:13,609
in his voice
from when he was 25 years old:
1694
01:25:13,609 --> 01:25:18,531
"Hey, Carm, come on.
Let's get out of here and have a drink."
1695
01:25:18,531 --> 01:25:22,535
And my mom looked at him
and just said, "Okay, Yogi."
1696
01:25:26,497 --> 01:25:27,832
And she smiled.
1697
01:25:28,541 --> 01:25:30,960
That was the last smile I saw her have.
1698
01:25:33,754 --> 01:25:35,798
And she died that night.
1699
01:25:35,798 --> 01:25:38,884
[poignant music playing]
1700
01:25:40,135 --> 01:25:44,056
I know there was
a big chunk of, uh, Yogi...
1701
01:25:44,723 --> 01:25:45,850
uh...
1702
01:25:45,850 --> 01:25:48,394
that, uh, when Carmen passed,
1703
01:25:48,394 --> 01:25:51,772
that, you know,
a part of him died at that time.
1704
01:25:53,566 --> 01:25:55,734
I said, "Dad, you know,
you're gonna go see Mom.
1705
01:25:55,734 --> 01:25:57,361
You're not gonna be in pain anymore.
1706
01:25:57,361 --> 01:25:59,280
You're gonna see
all your buddies up there."
1707
01:25:59,280 --> 01:26:01,365
He goes, "You wanna get rid of me?
1708
01:26:01,365 --> 01:26:06,078
Why don't you go up there and see her
if you want this that bad, huh?"
1709
01:26:07,454 --> 01:26:11,041
That was literally
one of the last things he said to me.
1710
01:26:11,041 --> 01:26:14,003
His mind wasn't as clear
as it could have been.
1711
01:26:14,003 --> 01:26:18,340
And, um, to see
your parents fade away is tough.
1712
01:26:18,340 --> 01:26:21,093
I keep seeing them as younger people.
1713
01:26:21,093 --> 01:26:24,680
When they fade away,
it's hard to get it into your system.
1714
01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:25,764
It's tough to do.
1715
01:26:30,519 --> 01:26:32,605
[trumpet playing "Taps"]
1716
01:26:53,000 --> 01:26:58,047
Yogi lived the life
that we're supposed to live as men,
1717
01:26:58,047 --> 01:27:00,549
and I always looked at what he was doing.
1718
01:27:01,175 --> 01:27:04,136
[Billy] At the end of the classic film
It's a Wonderful Life,
1719
01:27:04,762 --> 01:27:08,015
someone says,
"No man is a failure who has friends."
1720
01:27:08,766 --> 01:27:11,936
Yogi had a world of friends,
1721
01:27:11,936 --> 01:27:15,022
who either knew him or didn't know him,
1722
01:27:15,606 --> 01:27:17,608
you felt like he was your friend.
1723
01:27:18,400 --> 01:27:23,447
[Claire] I think he still represents
an age of innocence, if you will.
1724
01:27:24,073 --> 01:27:26,367
A more innocent era,
1725
01:27:27,242 --> 01:27:29,995
America as a better place.
1726
01:27:31,413 --> 01:27:34,541
Maybe it wasn't for African Americans.
1727
01:27:34,541 --> 01:27:37,002
It wasn't for women, necessarily.
1728
01:27:37,002 --> 01:27:40,214
But something in his generation
1729
01:27:40,798 --> 01:27:43,676
always strove
to make it better for everybody.
1730
01:27:44,259 --> 01:27:50,474
It's fitting that he's there with Jackie,
so they can argue into eternity
1731
01:27:50,474 --> 01:27:53,227
as to who was safe or who was out.
1732
01:27:54,103 --> 01:27:58,232
In every respect,
the proof is in the final results.
1733
01:27:58,232 --> 01:28:01,652
{\an8}The statistics are there.
The achievements are there.
1734
01:28:01,652 --> 01:28:04,029
His standing with his peers,
1735
01:28:04,029 --> 01:28:07,199
and with the public,
and his personal life,
1736
01:28:07,199 --> 01:28:11,704
a long, loving marriage,
the depth of the friendships,
1737
01:28:11,704 --> 01:28:14,540
his children and grandchildren,
1738
01:28:14,540 --> 01:28:16,417
this is what you hope for.
1739
01:28:16,417 --> 01:28:19,294
From day one,
this is something like what you hope,
1740
01:28:19,294 --> 01:28:22,673
in one way or another,
your own life will turn out like.
1741
01:28:22,673 --> 01:28:24,216
That's success.
1742
01:28:26,969 --> 01:28:29,972
[dramatic music playing]
1743
01:28:32,641 --> 01:28:34,977
[commentator]
Fans, let's hear it one more time
1744
01:28:34,977 --> 01:28:37,396
for these four icons of the game:
1745
01:28:37,396 --> 01:28:40,649
Bench, Aaron, Koufax, and Mays.
1746
01:28:40,649 --> 01:28:44,445
[Lindsay] We lost Grandpa just a few
months after that 2015 All-Star Game.
1747
01:28:44,445 --> 01:28:48,907
The Associated Press announced his passing
by saying that Yogi Bear had died.
1748
01:28:50,325 --> 01:28:54,038
I can't tell you how frustrating it is
that all that's left for most people
1749
01:28:54,038 --> 01:28:56,457
{\an8}is this cartoon image of my grandpa.
1750
01:28:56,457 --> 01:29:00,836
{\an8}A baseball card just came out
that makes him look like some sort of
1751
01:29:00,836 --> 01:29:04,631
animal, baby thing
sitting on a log in the woods,
1752
01:29:04,631 --> 01:29:08,761
{\an8}while the same set of cards
has Johnny Bench looking like a superhero.
1753
01:29:09,303 --> 01:29:12,890
This is a guy who volunteered
to fight in World War II
1754
01:29:12,890 --> 01:29:15,392
when he already had
a Yankee contract in his hands.
1755
01:29:15,392 --> 01:29:17,895
And then he gets injured
on D-Day in Normandy,
1756
01:29:17,895 --> 01:29:20,147
but declines to file
his Purple Heart paperwork
1757
01:29:20,147 --> 01:29:22,066
because he doesn't want his mom to worry.
1758
01:29:23,901 --> 01:29:25,778
We all felt
that he deserved to be honored,
1759
01:29:25,778 --> 01:29:28,363
and so we asked the Navy
if there was anything we could do
1760
01:29:28,363 --> 01:29:30,783
to prove he was injured during the war.
1761
01:29:30,783 --> 01:29:34,536
And the Department of the Navy
tells me to "go on social media"
1762
01:29:34,536 --> 01:29:36,830
and find "a witness" to the event.
1763
01:29:36,830 --> 01:29:40,542
Now, Grandpa was on a rocket boat in 1944.
1764
01:29:40,542 --> 01:29:44,338
If anyone on that boat is still alive,
they're pushing 100 years old.
1765
01:29:44,338 --> 01:29:47,132
I'm sure
I'll find them on Instagram, right?
1766
01:29:47,132 --> 01:29:48,592
[pensive music playing]
1767
01:29:48,592 --> 01:29:51,970
We also took aim
at the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1768
01:29:51,970 --> 01:29:54,098
It's the highest civilian honor
our country gives
1769
01:29:54,098 --> 01:29:56,975
in recognition
of contributions to the nation.
1770
01:29:56,975 --> 01:30:00,479
{\an8}To get the president to consider
my grandfather for the Medal of Freedom,
1771
01:30:00,479 --> 01:30:05,818
{\an8}we had to get 100,000 signatures
in an online petition within 30 days.
1772
01:30:05,818 --> 01:30:08,112
Yeah, it was impossible.
1773
01:30:09,488 --> 01:30:12,533
[Chris] Why the overlooking of Berra?
You'd think this would be a no-brainer.
1774
01:30:12,533 --> 01:30:14,493
{\an8}Why has no president given him this award?
1775
01:30:14,493 --> 01:30:17,412
{\an8}I think it's almost
because he's too famous.
1776
01:30:17,412 --> 01:30:20,332
{\an8}He was a wonderful person.
He was a guy who,
1777
01:30:20,332 --> 01:30:23,335
{\an8}when my father stepped
on the field for the first time
1778
01:30:23,335 --> 01:30:27,881
{\an8}as the first Black in the American League,
treated him with respect as an equal.
1779
01:30:27,881 --> 01:30:29,341
{\an8}And my father never forgot that.
1780
01:30:29,341 --> 01:30:31,593
He saw that I was
the first African American manager
1781
01:30:31,593 --> 01:30:33,011
in New York baseball history.
1782
01:30:33,011 --> 01:30:34,429
He wanted me to do well.
1783
01:30:34,429 --> 01:30:38,100
He became an LGBT rights activist
with Athlete Ally later in life.
1784
01:30:38,100 --> 01:30:40,102
Talk about progressive thinking.
1785
01:30:40,102 --> 01:30:44,439
{\an8}Yogi embodies a philosophy of allyship,
1786
01:30:45,065 --> 01:30:47,776
{\an8}uh, a philosophy
of making outsiders insiders.
1787
01:30:47,776 --> 01:30:50,654
It really was natural, then, to ask Yogi
1788
01:30:50,654 --> 01:30:53,699
if he would consider becoming
an Athlete Ally ambassador.
1789
01:30:53,699 --> 01:30:56,618
It was amazing
to have Yogi stand up and say:
1790
01:30:56,618 --> 01:30:58,745
"This is what I believe in.
This is what is right."
1791
01:30:58,745 --> 01:31:01,874
Um, that is, to this day,
1792
01:31:01,874 --> 01:31:05,210
going to change people's lives
and is gonna save people's lives.
1793
01:31:05,210 --> 01:31:07,462
[man] You have until tomorrow
to sign the petition
1794
01:31:07,462 --> 01:31:10,382
to get Yogi Berra
the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1795
01:31:10,382 --> 01:31:14,928
[Lindsay] On the last day of the petition,
we only have about 60,000 signatures.
1796
01:31:14,928 --> 01:31:18,932
I said, "We need 40,000 by the end
of the day." And I'm like, "All is lost."
1797
01:31:18,932 --> 01:31:22,686
So if you want him to,
today is your day to sign that petition.
1798
01:31:22,686 --> 01:31:24,438
He deserves this honor too.
1799
01:31:24,438 --> 01:31:28,525
I feel like I kind of missed the mark,
and I fell short
1800
01:31:28,525 --> 01:31:32,279
for somebody who'd never fallen short
for anyone in his life.
1801
01:31:32,279 --> 01:31:34,239
This makes me very sad.
1802
01:31:34,239 --> 01:31:35,991
But we still have six hours left,
1803
01:31:35,991 --> 01:31:39,328
so I start tweeting
at every celebrity I can think of
1804
01:31:39,328 --> 01:31:41,079
who has ever attended a Yankees game.
1805
01:31:41,079 --> 01:31:45,709
Alicia Keys, Spike Lee,
Billy Crystal, Robin Williams.
1806
01:31:45,709 --> 01:31:50,464
And it gets "YogiMedal" trending
on Twitter within about 25 minutes.
1807
01:31:50,464 --> 01:31:51,715
[dramatic music playing]
1808
01:31:51,715 --> 01:31:56,094
With an hour left to go,
we're still short 12,000 signatures.
1809
01:31:59,097 --> 01:32:00,432
But we never gave up.
1810
01:32:00,432 --> 01:32:02,893
[audience applauding]
1811
01:32:02,893 --> 01:32:05,229
[Obama]
Welcome to the White House, everybody.
1812
01:32:07,189 --> 01:32:10,108
{\an8}What can be said about
Lawrence "Yogi" Berra
1813
01:32:10,108 --> 01:32:12,110
{\an8}that he couldn't say better himself?
1814
01:32:12,110 --> 01:32:14,196
{\an8}[audience laughs]
1815
01:32:15,405 --> 01:32:17,532
{\an8}The son of an Italian bricklayer,
1816
01:32:17,532 --> 01:32:21,453
{\an8}they called him Yogi because
he sat like one while waiting to bat.
1817
01:32:22,412 --> 01:32:24,373
{\an8}And he was born to play baseball.
1818
01:32:25,290 --> 01:32:26,833
{\an8}But he loved his country,
1819
01:32:26,833 --> 01:32:29,586
{\an8}and at 18, he left St. Louis for the Navy,
1820
01:32:29,586 --> 01:32:31,922
{\an8}and ultimately found himself
on Omaha Beach.
1821
01:32:33,131 --> 01:32:35,550
{\an8}After he returned,
Yogi embarked on a career
1822
01:32:35,550 --> 01:32:38,887
that would make him
one of the greatest catchers of all time.
1823
01:32:38,887 --> 01:32:42,015
{\an8}- [dramatic music playing]
- Nobody's won more than this guy.
1824
01:32:42,015 --> 01:32:45,894
{\an8}And he coached the game
with as much heart as he played it.
1825
01:32:47,312 --> 01:32:51,692
{\an8}He lived his life with pride and humility,
and an original, open mind.
1826
01:32:52,734 --> 01:32:56,154
{\an8}One thing we know for sure,
if you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
1827
01:32:56,154 --> 01:32:57,948
{\an8}[audience laughs]
1828
01:32:58,573 --> 01:33:02,244
[Larry] When I got there with Lindsay,
I was overwhelmed.
1829
01:33:02,244 --> 01:33:04,329
[audience cheering and applauding]
1830
01:33:06,039 --> 01:33:09,459
My father's being honored
by the United States of America.
1831
01:33:22,347 --> 01:33:25,600
[crowd cheering]
1832
01:33:25,600 --> 01:33:28,895
[Yogi] You know, I was proud
to be a Major League ballplayer
1833
01:33:28,895 --> 01:33:30,480
and proud to be a Yankee.
1834
01:33:32,607 --> 01:33:34,651
A lot of good things have happened to me
1835
01:33:34,651 --> 01:33:39,031
since I first put on the pinstripes
over 50 years ago.
1836
01:33:40,198 --> 01:33:43,618
I got married to Carm
and raised a wonderful family.
1837
01:33:44,369 --> 01:33:48,582
I played on great teams,
great championship teams,
1838
01:33:48,582 --> 01:33:51,752
and the Yankees also became my family.
1839
01:33:52,377 --> 01:33:57,007
Well, I wanna thank you all,
making me feel right at home.
1840
01:33:57,007 --> 01:33:58,842
God bless you. Thank you.
1841
01:33:58,842 --> 01:34:01,678
- [dramatic music playing]
- [crowd cheering and applauding]
1842
01:34:10,520 --> 01:34:13,440
[crowd chanting] Yogi! Yogi! Yogi!
1843
01:34:13,440 --> 01:34:16,193
Yogi! Yogi! Yogi!
1844
01:34:16,193 --> 01:34:19,112
Yogi! Yogi! Yogi!
1845
01:34:30,916 --> 01:34:33,919
["It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" playing]
1846
01:34:58,360 --> 01:35:03,657
{\an8}♪ Here we are
Still together ♪
1847
01:35:04,449 --> 01:35:05,659
{\an8}♪ We are one... ♪
1848
01:35:05,659 --> 01:35:08,537
{\an8}[Mary] So this is my bed and breakfast.
1849
01:35:08,537 --> 01:35:11,998
{\an8}This is the place
where Yogi grew up and was born in.
1850
01:35:11,998 --> 01:35:16,920
The name of it is Berra's Beginnings
'cause it all started here in this home.
1851
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:19,506
This is my memorabilia case.
1852
01:35:19,506 --> 01:35:22,217
The guests love it.
They take pictures and think it's awesome.
1853
01:35:22,217 --> 01:35:26,430
And people are loving staying here
in the childhood home of Yogi Berra.
1854
01:35:27,139 --> 01:35:32,185
♪ Baby, it ain't over 'til it's over ♪
1855
01:35:32,894 --> 01:35:35,355
♪ So many years we've tried... ♪
1856
01:35:35,355 --> 01:35:39,943
[man] We are getting word of a US Airways
plane crash in the Hudson River.
1857
01:35:39,943 --> 01:35:41,695
Tourist ferries have it surrounded.
1858
01:35:41,695 --> 01:35:43,155
[Lindsay] One of the ferries
1859
01:35:43,155 --> 01:35:46,324
that carries people
from New Jersey to New York, you know,
1860
01:35:46,324 --> 01:35:48,702
is actually named after my grandfather.
1861
01:35:48,702 --> 01:35:51,580
We got to break the champagne bottles
over the hull of the boat.
1862
01:35:51,580 --> 01:35:53,331
It was christened the Yogi Berra.
1863
01:35:53,331 --> 01:35:58,587
But it was one of the ferry boats
that they used to pull the survivors
1864
01:35:58,587 --> 01:36:01,965
of the Sully plane landing
in the Hudson River.
1865
01:36:01,965 --> 01:36:05,594
So it was a nice full-circle moment
for Yogi Berra, the boat.
1866
01:36:05,594 --> 01:36:07,262
[man] We've had a miracle on 34th Street.
1867
01:36:07,262 --> 01:36:09,347
I believe now we've had
a miracle on the Hudson.
1868
01:36:09,347 --> 01:36:14,269
♪ So many tears I've cried
So much pain inside... ♪
1869
01:36:14,269 --> 01:36:17,981
This is actually a bigger event for me
than most people think.
1870
01:36:17,981 --> 01:36:20,150
I was a stamp collector for years.
1871
01:36:20,150 --> 01:36:21,568
[audience cheering and applauding]
1872
01:36:21,568 --> 01:36:25,447
What a great honor for the Berra family.
We are so proud.
1873
01:36:25,989 --> 01:36:28,366
[Larry] When I was younger,
I asked one of my teachers:
1874
01:36:28,366 --> 01:36:30,118
"How does my father get on a stamp?"
1875
01:36:30,118 --> 01:36:33,663
And he goes, "Larry, you better wait
because he has to be dead."
1876
01:36:33,663 --> 01:36:35,248
[audience laughs]
1877
01:36:35,248 --> 01:36:38,168
God bless you, Mom. She would be so proud.
1878
01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:48,428
Hey, Yogi, it ain't over.
1879
01:36:48,428 --> 01:36:50,931
As Yogi used to say, it ain't over.
1880
01:36:50,931 --> 01:36:54,059
- It ain't over.
- It ain't over till it's over.
1881
01:36:54,059 --> 01:36:57,938
Well, buddy, I'm back at Spring Training.
It's, uh, 25 years.
1882
01:36:57,938 --> 01:37:00,774
Um, everybody down here misses you.
1883
01:37:00,774 --> 01:37:03,485
Uh, me, more so.
1884
01:37:03,485 --> 01:37:05,403
Hey, Yogi, it ain't over.
1885
01:37:05,403 --> 01:37:09,282
It ain't over till it's over.
You were right.
1886
01:37:09,282 --> 01:37:12,202
Lawrence Peter Berra, a life well lived.
1887
01:37:12,202 --> 01:37:13,578
It ain't over.
1888
01:37:13,578 --> 01:37:14,746
It ain't over.
1889
01:37:14,746 --> 01:37:16,706
It ain't over,
and it'll never be over, actually.
1890
01:37:16,706 --> 01:37:19,292
Ten World Series, MVPs, All-Stars.
1891
01:37:19,292 --> 01:37:22,337
Listen, the mark you left
on this world was epic.
1892
01:37:22,337 --> 01:37:23,672
Miss you, brother.
1893
01:37:23,672 --> 01:37:25,882
[chuckles]
1894
01:37:25,882 --> 01:37:28,301
Just remember, it ain't over.
1895
01:37:28,301 --> 01:37:31,888
Yogi, it was a privilege
to watch you play,
1896
01:37:32,556 --> 01:37:34,391
and it was a blessing to know you.
1897
01:37:34,975 --> 01:37:36,977
And even though you're long gone,
1898
01:37:37,644 --> 01:37:39,980
it ain't over till it's over.
1899
01:37:39,980 --> 01:37:42,983
You're more than just a mentor.
You are a friend of mine.
1900
01:37:42,983 --> 01:37:44,484
So it ain't over.
1901
01:37:44,484 --> 01:37:48,113
We haven't forgotten you.
You meant so much to me in my life.
1902
01:37:48,113 --> 01:37:50,699
And I tell my friends all the time
what you meant to me.
1903
01:37:50,699 --> 01:37:52,826
What a wonderful teammate,
all those years.
1904
01:37:52,826 --> 01:37:57,372
My whole career was with you,
as a player and you as my manager.
1905
01:37:57,372 --> 01:37:59,457
And I just want you to know
that I love you.
1906
01:37:59,457 --> 01:38:02,586
I love you. Always will love you.
1907
01:38:02,586 --> 01:38:04,296
And, uh, it ain't over.
1908
01:38:04,838 --> 01:38:07,549
Thank you, Yogi. Thank you for everything.
1909
01:38:08,133 --> 01:38:12,804
Thank you for being you
because that's quite special.
1910
01:38:12,804 --> 01:38:15,223
You and Carmen were an example
for all of us
1911
01:38:15,223 --> 01:38:16,975
how we're supposed to live life.
1912
01:38:17,892 --> 01:38:20,812
And I'm extremely grateful
that I got to know you.
1913
01:38:20,812 --> 01:38:22,772
And it's not over, Yogi.
1914
01:38:22,772 --> 01:38:25,066
It ain't over till it's over.
1915
01:38:25,066 --> 01:38:28,111
I wish you could all apply it
to your life.
1916
01:38:28,111 --> 01:38:31,448
It ain't over till it's over.
1917
01:38:31,448 --> 01:38:35,201
But I'm pretty sure,
checking the clock, this is now over.
1918
01:38:36,620 --> 01:38:38,204
You could use me last.
1919
01:38:38,204 --> 01:38:41,625
I'm not saying I'm lobbying for that.
I'm just saying, there's your option.
1920
01:38:42,250 --> 01:38:44,002
I'm trying to help you out.
1921
01:38:44,002 --> 01:38:46,296
It's over. [laughs]
1922
01:38:49,716 --> 01:38:53,970
- ♪ You don't know ♪
- ♪ Time will go on ♪
1923
01:38:55,555 --> 01:39:02,354
♪ We are lost
Everywhere... ♪