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Yogi: The Life, Loves, and Language of Baseball Legend Yogi Berra by Barb Rosenstock
4.0
When it comes to sports, it’s not a big secret that I don’t really understand nor appreciate sports. I do like basketball and football more than baseball which I put in the category of Golf and watching grass grow. Still, my father is a sports guy. He watches all the games, supports the local high school teams and the ASU college teams. He loves baseball and I could see him appreciating this book a lot.
I grew up hearing the name Yogi Berra and I didn’t know who it was. I knew nothing about this guy accept his funny name. I learned a lot about this Yogi. He got his nickname from a picture his teammates saw of him sitting criss-cross applesauce watching and learning baseball, so they called him Yogi, like in yoga, which I think is fascinating. How cool. Now, I can relate to him through that one thing. He was a catcher and a good one and he was a good hitter. He painted his fingers bright red so the pitcher could see his signs as a catcher - I approve.
The line Barb repeats over and over is that …didn’t love him back, but he kept going, kept persisting. Man, I could use a right huge heap of that kind of gumption.
The best statistic is that the Yankees, the team he was on, went on to win 14 world series in like 21 years. That’s incredible, even I know that. He also had all these funny phrases that are similar to Zen koans. Cool. He was short and there were several teams that didn’t want him because he didn’t fit the baseball player mold.
For someone who doesn’t care for the sport, I thought this was a great biography of an interesting guy who did some amazing things in life. I had fun reading this.
The nephew and I talked of his poppy - my dad, and how he would love this. Nephew isn’t really a sports guy either, he tries sometimes to be in the crowd, but he doesn’t care. His new thing is One direction and learning to dance like Michael Jackson. He made a video of him doing Black and White in his white shirt looking like Harry Styles and he’s got the moves. He knows what’s cool. It’s the best thing ever. Even with that, he thought this was kind of cool too. He thought Yogi being a little weird was cool and he likes that quirky personality. Anyway, he gave this 3 stars.
I grew up hearing the name Yogi Berra and I didn’t know who it was. I knew nothing about this guy accept his funny name. I learned a lot about this Yogi. He got his nickname from a picture his teammates saw of him sitting criss-cross applesauce watching and learning baseball, so they called him Yogi, like in yoga, which I think is fascinating. How cool. Now, I can relate to him through that one thing. He was a catcher and a good one and he was a good hitter. He painted his fingers bright red so the pitcher could see his signs as a catcher - I approve.
The line Barb repeats over and over is that …didn’t love him back, but he kept going, kept persisting. Man, I could use a right huge heap of that kind of gumption.
The best statistic is that the Yankees, the team he was on, went on to win 14 world series in like 21 years. That’s incredible, even I know that. He also had all these funny phrases that are similar to Zen koans. Cool. He was short and there were several teams that didn’t want him because he didn’t fit the baseball player mold.
For someone who doesn’t care for the sport, I thought this was a great biography of an interesting guy who did some amazing things in life. I had fun reading this.
The nephew and I talked of his poppy - my dad, and how he would love this. Nephew isn’t really a sports guy either, he tries sometimes to be in the crowd, but he doesn’t care. His new thing is One direction and learning to dance like Michael Jackson. He made a video of him doing Black and White in his white shirt looking like Harry Styles and he’s got the moves. He knows what’s cool. It’s the best thing ever. Even with that, he thought this was kind of cool too. He thought Yogi being a little weird was cool and he likes that quirky personality. Anyway, he gave this 3 stars.