This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories,

the show where America is the star and the American people.

Pulitzer Prize winning columnist George Will has written extensively about baseball and has said

this about America's attraction to it, quote, sports serves society by providing vivid examples

of excellence. One of those examples is New York Yankee catcher and cultural icon, Yogi Berra.

Here's George Will.

A high drive.

That's trouble.

And Yogi Berra felt one high.

Over the screen and into Bedford Avenue.

It ain't over until it's over.

The 90% of his game is half metal.

When you come to the fork in the road, take it. It's De over until it's over. The 90% of this game is half medal. When you come to the fork in the road, take it.

It's Dejaveu all over again.

And the Yankees are champions.

Look at Farrell.

Take you back riding Bob Chazella.

The 18-year-old-old U.S. Navy enlistee, thinking it sounded less boring than the dull training he was doing in 1944,

volunteered for service on what he thought an officer had called rocket ships.

Actually, they were small, slow, vulnerable boats

used as launching pads for rockets to give close-in support for troops assaulting beaches.

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