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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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"The most valuable team player in sports" shows you what "teamwork" really means
What does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society that glorifies selfishness and a corporate culture that often uses "team player" as a buzzword but rewards only the showboaters and prima donnas? Well, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching. In this happy and hilarious guide to teamwork, sportsmanship, and winning, Yogi Berra draws on the timeless wisdom...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part comedian, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest player in baseball history, with fourteen pennants, ten World Series, and three MVPs. In this revelatory biography, Allen Barra presents Yogi's remarkable life as never seen before, from his childhood in "Dago Hill," the Italian-American neighborhood in St....
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English
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Driving Mr. Yogi is the story of a unique friendship between two New York Yankees legends-a pitcher and catcher-who share rides, meals, and a bond that transcends the twenty-five-year difference in their ages.
The story begins in 1999, when Hall of Famer Yogi Berra is reunited with the Yankees after a long self-exile, the result of being unceremoniously fired by team owner George Steinbrenner fourteen years before. A reconciliation between Berra...
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English
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Everyone knows Yogi Berra, the American icon. He was the backbone of the New York Yankees through ten World Series Championships, managed the National League Champion New York Mets in 1973, and had an ingenious way with words that remains an indelible part of a lexicon. But no one knew him as his family did. It chronicles of his unshakeable bond with his father, as well as an intimate portrait of one of the great sports figures of the Twentieth Century....
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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Description
In this book, Yogi takes his experiences as one of baseball's all-time heroes and turns them into funny, appealing, and moving essays on the game of life. His philosophy is plain-spoken and down-to-earth, hones through more than 50 years of reflecting on the game of baseball: 'Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.' In his inimitable style, using apt examples from his personal...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life of Major League Baseball and New York Yankee legend Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, describing how his differences challenged his baseball prospects and helped motivate him to prove his abilities as a player, coach, and manager.
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English
Description
A collection of quotes, anecdotes, and malaprops from one of baseball's wisest and wittiest personalities. New York Times–bestselling author Phil Pepe takes readers along on Yogi Berra's journey from St. Louis to New York's Yankee Stadium, including all the stops along the way-from his days as a tack-puller in a women's shoe factory, to a pre-game tribute in St. Louis, when he coined the phrase, "I want to thank all those that made this night necessary,"...
14) The Yogi book
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Celebrate one of the greatest and most beloved baseball players who ever lived-and certainly the most quoted. The Yogi Book is the New York Times bestseller filled with Yogi Berra's immortal sayings, plus photographs, a career timeline, and appreciations by some of his greatest fans, including Billy Crystal and Tim McCarver.
Yogi Berra's gift for saying the smartest things in the funniest, most memorable ways has made him a legend. The Yogi Book...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Lawrence 'Yogi' 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A major authoritativebiography of one of the greatest catchers in the history of the gameand the greatest living New York Yankeepresents Yogi Berra as he has never been seen before. Sifted from more than 4,000 newspaper and magazine articles, interviews, papers, and hundreds of memoirs and biographies, this compilation examines one of the most competitive players of his generation and one of the most unique men in baseball history. This updated, paperback...
19) Yogi Berra
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
A biography of one of baseball's greats, Yogi Berra, who was player, coach, and manager.
20) Yogi Berra
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the ballplayer known as widely for his unusual way with words as for his skill as a catcher, batter, and manager, set against the background of the times in which he lived and played.
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