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When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!

Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

by Yogi Berra
Dale Berra
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Everyone knows Yogi Berra for his famous non sequiturs : "It ain't over 'til it's over." "It gets late early out here." "The future ain't what it used to be." They seem like throwaway lines, but over time they reveal deeper meanings—playful truths, like Zen koans. Yogi's not trying to be mystical, but his seemingly simple phrases reveal the depth and wisdom of his mind.In this book, Yogi takes his experiences as one of baseball's all-time heroes and turns them into funny, appealing, and moving essays on the game of life. His philosophy is plainspoken and down-to-earth, hones through more than 50 years of reflecting on the game of baseball: "Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it."In his inimitable style, using apt examples from his personal trove of baseball stories, Yogi tells us what really matters in life; what it takes to win, how to learn from losses, how to remain true to yourself, and how to be happy even when life is throwing you nothing but knuckleballs.

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  • Release date

    March 28, 2001

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781598872064
      • File size: 61479 KB
      • Duration: 02:08:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The gentlemen Bartlett and Roget would have relished an evening's conversation with Lawrence Peter Berra, onetime ruler of the acreage directly behind Yankee Stadium's home plate and master of such "Yogi-isms" as "my later years came earlier than expected" and "if you can't imitate em, don't copy em." Okay, the great Hall of Fame catcher and pop philosopher did opine that "you can observe a lot by watching," and just about everything else attributed to him. But in this genial, gracious monologue, read by Dale Berra with a son's infusion of warmth and advocacy, Yogi explains, convincingly, what he was really trying to say when he waxed unwittingly witty. He was talking about loyalty, about family, about dedication to a craft, about decision-making, and about being true to oneself. Scattering tales here and there about his "lucky" life and career, from childhood on "the Hill" in St. Louis to retirement, he makes it crystal clear that there's just no one like him. M.J.B. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 21, 2001
      Upping the ante of such bestselling titles as It Ain't Over and The Yogi Book, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes collects more anecdotes and bon mots from the Yankees' Hall of Fame sage, Yogi Berra. A collaboration by Berra and Dave Kaplan, who is executive director of the nonprofit Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, a sports education facility at Montclair State University (close to Berra's home in Montclair, N.J.), the book pairs 40 classic Berra aphorisms "It's d j vu all over again" and "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded" among them with Berra's glosses and expansive colloquial commentary to help readers in their own decision making. Along the way, we learn the secrets to his 50-year marriage with "Carm" (they "talk over everything") and to his three-time MVP career as a player and pennant-winning seasons as a manager.

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