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Do you know the baseball player who has been in both the Hall of Fame and on the All-Century Team while also playing in 15 All-star games? Well, I do, he's Lawrence Peter Berra, known to many as "Yogi" Berra.Lawrence was born on May 12, 1925, in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up on Elizabeth St., in a neighborhood called "The Hill". His father worked in a shoe factory, and young Lawdie, as he was called by his friends, decided he didn't want to do that kind of work so he picked up sports. He found out that he was actually good at it and could play as well as or better than any kid in the neighborhood.He got his nickname "Yogi" from his friend Bobby Hofman when they went to a movie about India. They saw this old swami who was called Yoga and so his friends started to call him Yoga and it soon turned into Yogi. For the record "Yogi Bear" (the cartoon) got its name from Yogi Berra, not the other way around. Yogi only went to school through the 8th grade.In 1942 Yogi was playing minor league ball. Yogi's friend Joe Garagiola was offered $500 dollars to sign
One time Yogi told Hank Aaron to bat with the label up and Hank finally said "Yogi, I can up here to hit, not to read. I look up to Yogi as my role model because he is a catcher and I share his beliefs. The Yankees felt that he was worth the money so they signed him for $500 in 1943. Two years later a baseball stadium was named after him on campus. The Cardinals decided that one $500 dollar kid was enough, and only offered Yogi $250, which he turned down. After his discharge he reported to the Yankees in his Navy uniform and was looked at like some kind of clown. Yogi was known as a wild swinger and was hard to strike out. The Yankees manager decided if Mel Ott thought he was worth that much money he had better keep him. I also see him, as me, when he was young, because it seems to me we share the same characteristics. In 1951 Yogi married his wife Carmen. Yogi has lived in Montclair, New Jersey for over 40 years. with the Cardinals, and Yogi figured that he would get a $500 dollar contract too. Yogi didn't often strike out in fact he struck out only 12 times out of 597 at bats in 1950. Yogi received a honorary doctorate from Montclair State University in 1996. He was soon playing ball in Newark.
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