Yogi Berra
Eternal Yankee

This has been on my to-read list since 2011, when I discovered it was also on audio. (Clearly I hadn't looked very hard before.) It was pure delight! What a great man Berra was--as a baseball legend but also just as a person. Perhaps to enjoy it as much as I did you had to be a Yankee fan back in th......more

You run into a lot of characters lurking around baseball clubhouses, but it's less interesting than it might sound. From superstars to rookies to owners to agents to assorted hangers-on, most adopt some version of the same clubhouse mask, fake boredom or fake seen-it-all weariness or fake bravado th......more

Hands down my Favorite Yankee next to Jeter. This was a fantastic biography with hundreds of little details about one of baseballs greatest decades. Yogi had an addiction for chocolate milk and was forced to stop because he was getting sick for it and then years later became VP or part owner of Yooh......more

I would prefer to give this book about 4 1/2 stars, because I thought the author repeated a lot of facts that didn't really need to be repeated. Other than that, a very good book about a very entertaining subject. If one listens to this book as I did, be warned that the last (16th) disk is appendices......more

I was inspired by Allen Barra's book on Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle to read this one on Yogi Berra. As a St. Louis Cardinal fan, I never had much interest in the NY Yankees, but I found this biography of Yogi to be fascinating. Yogi's career was coming to an end when I became interested in basebal......more