In the 75 World Series games he played, Berra struck out only 17 times. "He was one of the most feared hitters the game had ever seen. Teammate Hector Lopez said, 'Yogi had the fastest bat I ever saw.

Yogi Berra was a one-of-a-kind baseball legend. The kid from St. Louis -- who was born on this day in 1925 -- developed into one of the greatest catchers of all time and a Hall of Famer, as well as an ...

Yogi Berra Lindsay Berra loved baseball but she hated ... So you learn why Grampa was so good at putting the bat on balls that were out of the strike zone because he could literally hit a bottle ...

with general manager Ralph Houk believing Berra had lost control of the clubhouse. "Yogi never held that against me,'' said Linz, 73, an account manager for the Stewart Title Insurance Company in ...

Where was Lorenzo Pietro “Yogi” Berra, whose stats are even better than theirs? Nicknamed for the way he sat with his arms and legs crossed waiting for his turn at bat playing sandlot baseball ...

Yogi Berra, catcher of the New York Yankees ... and then being expected to stand at the plate, bat in those hands, and deliver. And, by the way, if you can also lead our squad emotionally ...

the clutch hitter in question, whose bat seldom met a pitch it ... Of course, it would be impossible to mention Berra without references to those classic Yogi-isms, of which no less than eight ...

As Lindsay Berra shares the news of ... A still photo in the film shows Yogi, standing behind the plate, talking to Williams, who is coming to bat. Williams, bat resting on his prodigious shoulder ...

Lindsay Berra, Yogi's granddaughter That’s where visitors ... Yogi was blessed with bat speed and an uncanny ability to out-think pitchers. It was nearly impossible to strike him out.

By 1998, the Yogi Berra Museum was in operation on Montclair ... to use a cane – until I found one made from a baseball bat. That cane came back into my possession when he died, and I asked ...