When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It!
by Yogi Berra, Dale Berra
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Author: Dale Berra, Yogi BerraEdition: Audio Cassette
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Published: 2001-05-07
ISBN: 1565114760
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
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Book Review: America's Philosopher King
Summary: 5 Stars
When Yogi was 14 and was asked by his teachers, in a parent-teacher meeting called to decide his fate about whether to continue his schooling. In the presence of his parents, his teacher asked: "Don't you know anything?" Yogi's answer was: "I don't even suspect anything." And with that answer, he was allowed to quit school. And as they say, the rest is history.
This book is irreverent "blue collar philosophy" at its level best. Although we all joke about the apparent illogic and skilful logical disconnects and double entendres in Yogi's homespun aphorisms and jokes, they are not all to be dismissed only on their surface meanings alone. Most have a distinct deeper meaning, which if missed, gives the joker (Yogi) the last laugh.
Here, in their fullest glory are some of Yogi's best productions, interspersed between a brief biography of the high and low points of his life. That there were many more high points than low, itself makes one understand who Yogi was: Not just a ballplayer/philosopher, but a warm sunny deeply interesting human being.
Read and enjoy. Five Stars
Summary of When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It!
Hall of Fame philosopher Yogi Berra's When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! is another volume of musings and malaprops, and the advice implicit in the title is sound indeed. Just listen: "Throughout life you come to serious forks in the road--decisions," Yogi tells us. "Which path do you choose? Sometimes it's tough. People are always afraid of making the wrong choice." Not Yogi, who explains that tragedy lies in paralysis, not bad choices or regrets, and offers personal examples from on and off the field to prop up his profundity.Like its predecessor, The Yogi Book, Fork is essentially a collection of Yogi's well-traveled observations from out of left field, but it's much more than just d?j? vu all over again. Instead of explaining, as he has before, what prompted a particular Yogi-ism or what he was really trying to say, Yogi does his best to go deep. The charm is that Yogi's so guileless, he makes it work--there's sagacity in his simplicity. Each Yogi-ism gets its own short chapter in which Yogi riffs off the phrase to dispense a bit of homespun wisdom and inspiration. "It gets late early out there"--we get old before we're ready, but here's how to cope with it. "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him"--we all need to be true to ourselves. With Yogi's latest career as a successful author, not only ain't it over for him, there's happily no end in sight. --Jeff Silverman
Hall of Fame philosopher Yogi Berra's When You Come to a Fork in theRoad, Take It! is another volume of musings and malaprops, and the adviceimplicit in the title is sound indeed. Just listen: "Throughout life you come toserious forks in the road--decisions," Yogi tells us. "Which path do you choose?Sometimes it's tough. People are always afraid of making the wrong choice." NotYogi, who explains that tragedy lies in paralysis, not bad choices or regrets,and offers personal examples from on and off the field to prop up hisprofundity.Like its predecessor, The YogiBook, Fork is essentially a collection of Yogi's well-traveledobservations from out of left field, but it's much more than justd+?j+? vu all over again. Instead of explaining, as he has before,what prompted a particular Yogi-ism or what he was really trying to say, Yogidoes his best to go deep. The charm is that Yogi's so guileless, he makes itwork--there's sagacity in his simplicity. Each Yogi-ism gets its own shortchapter in which Yogi riffs off the phrase to dispense a bit of homespun wisdomand inspiration. "It gets late early out there"--we get old before we're ready,but here's how to cope with it. "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him"--weall need to be true to ourselves. With Yogi's latest career as a successfulauthor, not only ain't it over for him, there's happily no end in sight.--Jeff Silverman
A collection of appealing, funny, and surprisingly moving essays on life, happiness, and getting through the slumps from the bestselling author and celebrated athlete. Filled with more of Yogi's inimitable and unwittingly wise aphorisms, these reflections focus on the valuable lessons Berra has learned on and off the field. From his early years as an immigrant's son through his triumphant career as a player and manager who played in a record seventy-five World Series games, Yogi illustrates his homespun philosophies with apt analogies to his baseball stories. This wise, humble, touching book is vintage Yogi Berra--in short, deja vu all over again.
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