Up on the blog today we have my 1966 "Career-Capper" for All-Time Great Yogi Berra, from my special custom set released a few years back:
Let's see, the man
was a three-time American League Most Valuable Player, 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…
