The story of yogi Berra

1. The story of yogi Berra Author : Gene Schoor PowerPointAuthor: Tommy Hyland

2. Introduction • Yogi Berra was born on May 12, 1925 • Yogi was born in St. Louis, Missouri and had 3 brothers and a sister • Yogi was most famous for being able to hit any badly pitched ball straight out of the park. • I chose Yogi Berra because I play baseball and he was one of the best players to ever play the game of baseball.

3. Childhood Yogi was one of five kids in his family. He had three brothers and one sister. Before Yogi was old enough to start playing baseball on an actual team he played with his brothers in his back yard. When Yogi was a boy in school he didn’t fare well in grammar school as they called it back then. While he was in grammar school he did play baseball with his buddies in pick up games. As soon as Yogi was old enough he started to play baseball on an actual team that was sponsored by the local YMCA. The team name for his team was the Edmonds.

4. Adolescence After grade school Yogi started working jobs to help his family to pay for things. Yogi had many jobs but none of them were amusing to him and he hated all of the jobs he had. Yogi hated every job that didn’t involve baseball because he thought that the only thing for him was baseball. Yogi wanted to play baseball 24/7. Leo Brown, a former GM for the Yankees who had previously seen Yogi play baseball, knew that he had some talent so he called up the Yankees General Manager and told him about Yogi. The next day Yogi heard a knock at the door and there was the Yankees GM . He asked the man what he was doing at Yogi’s house and he said signing Yogi. The two men sat down to talk contract and after 30 minutes Yogi was a Yankee. Yogi had spent a whole season with the Norfolk, VA Tars, but after that season Yogi decided to join the Navy. In just six days Yogi was expected to report to Maryland for training. But Yogi wanted some time to visit with his parents so he was not happy about reporting. Yogi didn’t know about what was going to happen to him at that base but something big was going to happen.

5. Adulthood While Yogi was at his army base he decided that he wanted some action and the army would give it to him. One day the speaker went off at the base and the lieutenant was calling all of the soldiers that were looking for some action. That was Yogi’s chance and he didn’t miss it. As soon as Yogi got to where the lieutenant told them to go he saw a massive boat. Later the group of five people were named the LCSS and they were assigned with a lot of other LCSS crews to attack Hitler's army at the English Channel. The invasion went very well and Yogi was promoted to Sergeant 1st class. Then Yogi was almost killed on another LCSS mission to Africa. He was only saved because the missile was a dud. The missile was coming straight toward Yogi and his crew but at the last second the missile turned out to be a dud and dove down into the ocean saving Yogi and his crew. After his two missions Yogi demanded to be on the baseball team at the base but it took a lot of fighting to get him on that team. He first had to go to the head coach of the team and then the coach brought him to head officer of the base. As soon as Yogi got there the head person at the base thought “who was this kid who thought that he actually played baseball”. After a long hard fight Yogi came out on top.

6. Adulthood (cont.) As soon as Yogi played for the base everyone could tell that he played baseball before. Even though there wasn’t MVP awards for players everyone knew that Yogi would have won it. Everyone at the base was impressed with Yogi’s ability to play baseball. On one afternoon after a game the manager of a farm team loved Yogi so much that he offered the Yankee’s 50 grand for him. The Yankees then had to see the kid that was worth 50 grand so they brought him up to play with the Yankees. The first at bat for the young Yogi Berra as a major leaguer he hit a homerun. The pitch was a ball but Yogi still managed to smack it out of the park. That at bat would then start one the best baseball careers in the history of the game.

7. Timeline Yogi is born In 1943 the In 1946 Yogi Yogi won in St. Louis Yankees returned to his first MVP May 12, 1925 sign Yogi baseball 1951 Yogi starts to In 1943 Yogi Yogi gets Yogi retires play baseball joined the married from baseball when he’s 5 navy 1949 1989 1930

8. Major Contributions Yogi Berra had some major positive contributions to the game of baseball. The biggest contribution that Yogi made to the game of baseball was all of his World Series Championships. Another one of his major contributions was his powerful wrists that smacked out a ton of homeruns. He also made the play when the hitter bunts and the catcher fields it tags the runner and tags the other runner that’s going home legendary. All of Yogi’s wins as a manager were major contributions to many managers to go out there every game and try as hard as possible to get a win. Overall Yogi had many contributions to the game of baseball but these were the major contributions.

9. Most Interesting Story The most interesting thing I learned about Yogi Berra was that Yogi’s father had to be persuaded by the priest of their church and Joey Garagiola’s (MLB player) dad to let Yogi play baseball. The story starts in Yogi’s adulthood when he was eighteen years old. Yogi wanted to play baseball but Yogi’s father thought that baseball was a game for bums. So Yogi went out and asked Joey’s father and the priest of their church to talk to his dad. After a long argument Yogi’s dad allowed him to play baseball until he failed and was rejected by a team.

10. Three Questions • Did you enjoy having the paparazzi follow you everywhere you went? • Did you like traveling to all of your teams away games? • Was it fun having as many fans as you did when you played baseball?

11. Bibliography Schoor, G. (1976). The Story of Yogi Berra. U.S.A. : Doubleday .