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 Winston Churchill has been replaced by Yogi Berra as the favorite source of quotations."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