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Berra's longtime friend, Joe Garagiola, who lived directly across the street from Berra when they were young, died six months later on March 23, 2016. Berra's Yankee teammate Don Larsen, who pitched the only perfect game in World Series history and was the only surviving member of the 1956 game at the time of Berra's death, died on January 1, 2020.
Dale Anthony Berra (born December 13, 1956) is an American former Major League Baseball player who primarily played as an infielder from 1977 to 1987. He is the son of Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra and brother of former Baltimore Colts return specialist Tim Berra.
Timothy Thomas Berra (born September 23, 1951) is an American former professional football player who played for the Baltimore Colts in 1974. [1] He is the son of Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra and the brother of former Major League Baseball (MLB) infielder Dale Berra .
In December, Shamsky was part of a panel, along with Larry Berra and Gil Hodges Jr., who discussed the '69 Mets and their famous dads at the Cascades Men's Club breakfast in Boynton Beach.
Berra is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Christophe Berra (born 1985), Scottish football player; Dale Berra (born 1956), American baseball player and son of Yogi Berra; Reto Berra (born 1987), Swiss hockey player; Steve Berra (born 1973), American skateboarder; Tim Berra (biologist) (born 1943), American biologist ...
Colman played in MLB with the Pittsburgh Pirates as a first-baseman-outfielder from 1942 to 1946, and the New York Yankees as an outfielder in 1946 and 1947, where he roomed with young Yankee catcher Yogi Berra. Colman and Berra had been teammates with the minor-league Newark Bears in 1946, and both were called up to the Yankees.
One of those, former catcher Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, had been a constant on the team. [6] Berra had accumulated considerable baseball knowledge during his career. Casey Stengel, the Yankees' manager throughout the 1950s, had considered him the most important player on the team, [7] sometimes describing Berra as his assistant manager.
The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center is a museum on the campus of Montclair State University in Little Falls, New Jersey.It serves to honor the career of Yogi Berra, who played for the New York Yankees and the New York Mets of Major League Baseball and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.