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LawrenceYogi Berra was never supposed to become a major league ballplayer.

That''s what his immigrant father told him. That''s what Branch Rickey told him, too-right to Berra''s face, in fact. Even the lowly St. Louis Browns of his youth said he''d never make it in the big leagues.

Yet baseball was his lifeblood. It was the only thing he ever cared about. Heck, it was the only thing he ever thought about. Berra couldn''t allow a constant stream of ridicule about his appearance, taunts about his speech, and scorn about his perceived lack of intelligence to keep him from becoming one of the best to ever play the game-at a position requiring the very skills he was told he did not have.

Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and four years of reporting, Jon Pessah delivers a transformational portrait of how Berra handled his hard-earned success-on and off the playing field-as well as his failures; how the man who insisted I really didn''t say everything I said!

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      Publisher Back Bay Books
      Published 22 April 2021
      ISBN-13 9780316310970
      978-0316310970
      ISBN-10 0316310972
      Also in:
      Biography: sport Sport Baseball History of sport

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      LawrenceYogi Berra was never supposed to become a major league ballplayer.

      That''s what his immigrant father told him. That''s what Branch Rickey told him, too-right to Berra''s face, in fact. Even the lowly St. Louis Browns of his youth said he''d never make it in the big leagues.

      Yet baseball was his lifeblood. It was the only thing he ever cared about. Heck, it was the only thing he ever thought about. Berra couldn''t allow a constant stream of ridicule about his appearance, taunts about his speech, and scorn about his perceived lack of intelligence to keep him from becoming one of the best to ever play the game-at a position requiring the very skills he was told he did not have.

      Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and four years of reporting, Jon Pessah delivers a transformational portrait of how Berra handled his hard-earned success-on and off the playing field-as well as his failures; how the man who insisted I really didn''t say everything I said!

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