![]() ![]() “For me, Yogi Berra was my grandpa,” his granddaughter Lindsay told CNN, “He was the guy who burned all the hot dogs at our family barbecues when I was a kid. He was injured during the attack, he pulled bodies out of the water, and he learned that in comparison to war, baseball would be easy.ĭuring his remarkable 90 years of life, Berra became many wonderful things to many different people he was universally loved, but he was the most revered by a special few, his family. In 1944, two years before he started launching home runs at the Yankee Stadium, Berra was on a rocket boat off the coast of Normandy, providing cover fire for the D-Day Invasion. Yogi Berra famously said “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” but one of the greatest careers in baseball history might have been over before it had even begun. ![]()
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