I'm Christopher Leiden, this is Open Source. It ain't over till it's over. That's Yogi

Berra's Ageless Line in the title now of a summer hit movie just to prove Yogi was right

about pretty much everything. He was the most valuable player in his New York Yankees uniform

and the most beloved, most creative, most quotable source of American language and American wisdom.

We got it first hand in a radio studio with that dear man almost 25 years ago.

I'm Christopher Leiden, this is the connection. Yogi Berra is our guest, the man, the mouth,

the baseball marvel. He's on tour with a book of his famous Yogi isms. But let's remember

that if Yogi Berra had never spoken a word, he would still be a hall of fame and then

some. Yogi Berra was the New York Yankees catcher or outfielder on 10 World Series

championship teams. He was three times the American league's most valuable player in the

1950s. He hit 358 home runs in 19 seasons and he may have been the best bad ball hitter

to ever play the game. He played in the good old days of Joe Demagio, Mickey Mantle,

Billy Martin, Whitey Ford, the man of the hour Hank Bauer, Don Larson, Johnny Meijs,

Phil Rosuto, and he played in the heyday of Yankees stadium two before it started falling

apart as a player and then as a manager with the Yankees and the Mets and a hitting coach

for the Houston Astros, Yogi Berra never stopped making his one of a kind comments. Yogi

Berra's collection of sayings is called the Yogi book. I really didn't say everything

I said. He says, connection listeners, are you ready to admit that you were Yankees

fan all along? Did you watch Yogi Berra play? When you go to the game now, do you think

it has the same spirit as in Yogi's days? It hasn't got the same salaries. Thank goodness.

Have you got a Yogi as in you'd like to offer him 1-800-423-8255 or 1-800-423-TALK as

the number to make the Yogi Berra connection this hour? Welcome to the connection Yogi

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