{"id":2159,"date":"2015-09-23T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T08:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:07:54","slug":"the-great-yogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"The Great Yogi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ahhh, my all-time favorite athlete is gone. Yogi Berra was 90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c7d284c7970b-200wi.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13581\" title=\"Yogi_Berra_1956\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the NY Yankee statement, quoting his family:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.yankees.mlb.com\/news\/article\/151137752\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">&#8220;While we mourn the loss of our father, grandfather and great-grandfather, we know he is at peace with Mom,&#8221; his family said in a statement released by the museum. &#8220;We celebrate his remarkable life, and are thankful he meant so much to so many. He will truly be missed.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and here is the Daily News coverage &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/baseball\/baseball-legend-yogi-berra-dead-90-mlb-article-1.2370848?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%202015-09-23&amp;utm_term=DailyNewsletter\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">Even before the \u201cgreatest living Yankee\u201d torch was passed to him with the death of Joe DiMaggio in 1999, Berra was always at the top of the list as the most respected and beloved Yankee deity because of his clutch hitting on the field and his humility and genial disposition off it. In Berra\u2019s 18 seasons with the Yankees from 1946-63, they went to the World Series 14 times, winning 10 of them, making him baseball\u2019s all time \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh, my all-time favorite athlete is gone. Yogi Berra was 90. From the NY Yankee statement, quoting his family: &#8220;While we mourn the loss of our father, grandfather and great-grandfather, we know he is at peace with Mom,&#8221; his family said in a statement released by the museum. &#8220;We celebrate his remarkable life, and are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13582,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/13582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}