Yogi Berra
Baseball Player — born 1925
Yogi Berra is a former American baseball player and the manager for New York Yankees who took the team to the winning stream.
Yogi Berra was an American Major League Baseball catcher, manager, and coach whose 19-year MLB playing career with the New York Yankees produced 10 World Series championships (a record across all professional team sports), three American League MVP Awards (1951, 1954, 1955), and 18 American League All-Star Game selections. He was born Lawrence Peter Berra on May 12, 1925, in The Hill neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, into an Italian-American immigrant family. His father Pietro Berra was an Italian-immigrant brick-layer from Malvaglio, Italy, and his mother Paolina Longoni was an Italian-immigrant homemaker. He acquired the nickname "Yogi" from his Italian-American childhood friend Bobby Hofman, who said Berra resembled a Hindu yogi he had seen in a movie.
His U.S. Navy service across 1944–1946 — including his June 6, 1944 service as a gunner aboard the USS Bayfield rocket-launching boat across the D-Day invasion of Normandy and the August 1944 invasion of southern France — preceded his 1946 New York Yankees signing. His September 22, 1946 MLB debut with the New York Yankees launched his 19-year Yankees career.
His 14 American League pennants and 10 World Series championships across 1947–1962 — across the Yankees teams that included Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, and Roger Maris — produced his 20th-century American Major League Baseball public profile. The 10 World Series championships (1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962) are the most by any player in any of the four major American professional team sports.
His parallel managerial career produced his 1964 New York Yankees American League pennant, his 1972–1975 New York Mets head-coaching career, his 1973 New York Mets National League pennant, and his 1984–1985 Yankees second managerial career. His post-baseball cultural influence has been produced by his "Yogi-isms" — particular humorous-paradoxical sayings such as "It ain't over till it's over," "It's like déjà vu all over again," "You can observe a lot just by watching," and "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He died on September 22, 2015, at age 90, in West Caldwell, New Jersey, of natural causes — exactly 69 years to the day after his MLB debut.
His name Yogi began as a childhood nickname (from the Hindi yogi meaning "practitioner of yoga"). Yogi has been a rare but enduring American boys' name across the 20th century.
About the name Yogi
Gender: Male · Origin: Indian
Of The Yoga Practice