Continuing
with my fun vintage special thread of "missing" 1954 Wilson Franks
cards, we add the great Yogi Berra, New York Yankees legend and American
Icon:
Berra
was coming off a second place-MVP finish in 1953, and it would only get
better, as he would reel off two straight MVP seasons in 1954 and 1955,
making it three such awards in five years, instantly putting him in
all-time conversation by the time he was 30 years of age.
Besides being a three-time American League Most Valuable Player, he was a FIFTEEN-TIME
all-star, and received Most Valuable Player votes every single year
between 1947 and 1961. As a matter of fact, between
1950 and 1956 he never finished lower than fourth for the MVP, with
three wins, and two second place finishes!
That's seven top-4 finishes in seven years! Just awesome.
Except for four
scant games in 1965 with the New York Mets, Berra played the rest of his
19-year career with the Bronx Bombers, amassing 358 homers, 1430 runs
batted in and a .285 average.
One other note about his amazing career: the man only struck out 414 times over 8359 at-bats!
YOGI!!! I loved that man!
A true baseball treasure…
