'I Wouldn't Have Made It Working; I Loved the Game'

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BERRA: Maybe I copied it from [Joe Medwick]- he was a bad-ball hitter. See, I could leave a bad ball alone, but then you throw it there again I'll swing at it 'cause I saw it good. They'd tell me I hit a bad ball. I'd say, "I saw it good, so I swung at it. It looked like a strike to me." ... I didn't give 'em a chance to strike me out, I guess. IfI could see it, I could hit it. One year (1950) I came up S97 times and only struck out 12 times.

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'I Wouldn't Have Made It Working; I Loved the Game'

Did he really just say that? Rewind 30 seconds. In a private room adjacent to Yankees manager Joe Girardi's office, 84-year-old Lawrence Berra is discussing the craft that made him a living legend. That craft happens to be catching, not speaking in malapropisms ... or, to use a more affectionate term, Yogiisms. But here comes a fresh one for the books: "I like small catchers," Berra says. "They don't have to work as hard as tall catchers. You just bend down and you're down there."

Yogi Berra has long been there for the world's amusement, and not always on purpose. But had he never spoken a word, he still would have been a superstar, ...

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