Yogi Berra’s fame off the field sometimes overshadowed his phenomenal feats on it, making him in the words of Billy Crystal, “the most overlooked superstar in the history of baseball.&#…
For Lindsay Berra, the granddaughter of legendary, the moment of truth arrived like a fastball over the heart of the plate.
Billy Crystal, the actor, comedian and superfan of the New York Yankees, talks about Yankee legend Yogi Berra in “It Ain’t Over,” a new documentary on the ballplayer. Larry, Tim and Dale Berra talk about their father Yankee legend Yogi Berra in “It Ain’t Over,” a new documentary on the ballplayer. Show Caption“It Ain’t Over,” for which Lindsay Berra was executive producer, seeks to set the record straight on Berra, whose remarkable feats on the field as a catcher for 19 seasons and a manager for seven more never received the respect they were due.
Mullin says that juxtaposition between perception and reality was a big part of what drew him to the project, which he’s been working on for the past five years. “At the time, it was the longest game in history,” Lindsay Berra says. “Could you imagine any catcher today catching 22 innings? No way.” About those strikeouts: Berra simply didn’t miss. In 1950, he went to the plate 656 times, hit 28 homers and 124 RBIs – and struck out only 12 times all year.“There’s only two players in history to finish Top 4 in MVP voting for seven years in a row,” he says. “Yogi and the only other person is Mike Trout .The team player
“And by the time I was old enough to realize he was Yogi Berra, they stayed as two separate people in my mind,” she says. “Grampa Yogi is the guy that I grew up with playing Wiffle ball and Yogi Berra is the guy that did all the amazing things on the baseball field.” “He was very proud of the team accomplishments, what they were able to accomplish together,” she says. “He had 10 World Series rings; he only ever wore the 1953 ring.”
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