* Review: Yogi Berra, Eternal Yankee

April 7, 2009

The San Francisco Chronicle (are they still around? It’s hard to keep track.) published this review of the new Barra Berra book.

Upshot:

I was struck reading Allen Barra’s altogether sturdy and well-written biography at just how unusual a figure Yogi truly is. Barra (no relation, he thinks), an amiable, guys-talking-at-the-water-cooler type sportswriter best known for his former column writing at Salon.com and his well-received Bear Bryant biography, does a beautiful job of reminding even the casual fan of Yogi’s bona fides as a baseball great. He was perhaps the greatest overall catcher ever …, definitely one of the great winners of all time (with an absurd 10 World Series rings) and indisputably an all-time original as a personality, teammate and clubhouse presence.

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