Saturday, January 26, 2008

JOHN THORN PRAISES YOGI: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL


"Over the years the legend of Yogi Berra has overtaken the life, and he has become very nearly a literary character, a Plato Behind the Bat. Now, especially for fans too young to have seen him play, Carlo DeVito wonderfully restores the balance. Yogi leaps off the page not as a Borscht Belt quipster but as the most unlikely and most unassuming of the game's great players, truly an American Original."
- John Thorn, author of TOTAL BASEBALL and THE COMPLETE ARMCHAIR BOOK OF BASEBALL