Wednesday, September 23, 2015

'One That Got Away': When Yogi Berra Tried Out For The Cardinals

Answering what essentially was a Want Ad in the newspaper for ballplayers, young Alfred Fred “Red” Schoendienst hitchhiked to St. Louis and took the field to catch the eye of Cardinals general manager Branch Rickey.
Bird Land

Yogi Berra, the great New York Yankees catcher who died Wednesday at age 90, had the classic American life. An unusual life. A long, prosperous, accomplished, happy, wonderful life in every way imaginable.
101 ESPN

Long before he was a Yankees legend, a Hall of Fame catcher and the source of so many beloved malapropisms, Yogi Berra was a young boy growing up in The Hill, a St. Louis neighborhood that many Italian immigrants once called home.
St. Louis Official Site

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