Remembering Yogi Berra

His education may have taken him only as far as the eighth grade but Yogi Berra was one of the true American heroes of the 20th Century. Consider his accomplishments: in baseball he is one of the ten greatest New York Yankees, one of the ten greatest players in World Series history, and one of only 310 people elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. In pop culture, he is an fixture, one of only about 2500 people cited in Bartlett’s Book of Quotations. In addition, he won a Purple Heart for valor at the Normandy landing during World War II. Truly, not many Americans of the postwar generation can match the achievements of the perpetually underestimated Yogi Berra.