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.
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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.
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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.
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