While I was a teenager in the 60’s Yogi Berra was one of my favorite sports figures (he was a catcher and so was I) so I want to give him the credit he deserves for my title.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n During his long and spectacular career Yogi was known for his spontaneous and witty comments, malapropisms and seemingly unintentional witticisms. His endearing “Yogi-isms” often took the form of either a tautology (saying the same thing twice in different words) or a contradiction but they usually had an underlying and powerful message that offered humor, wisdom or both. Sports writer Allen Barra described Yogi-isms as ”\u00a0distilled bits of wisdom which, like good country songs and old John Wayne movies, get to the truth in a hurry.”<\/em><\/p>\n After watching MIckey Mantle and Roger Maris repeatedly hit back-to-back home runs in Yankee Stadium Yogi once described the experience like this, “It’s\u00a0d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again”. Thanks for the title inspiration, Yogi.<\/em><\/p>\n Interestingly, the name of the cartoon character Yogi Bear was so similar to his own that the human Yogi very nearly sued animation studio Hanna-Barbera over the infringement. And then to add insult to injury, when Yogi died in 2015 his Associated Press obituary mistakenly said that Yogi Bear had died instead of Yogi Berra. <\/em>You can’t make this stuff up.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/yogi-berra-public-domain-1.jpg\")
Image in the public domain<\/em><\/p>\n