Yogi Berra documentary 'It Ain't Over' opens in DC, celebrating baseball legend of Yankee 'Yogi-isms

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He won 10 World Series rings as a catcher for the New York Yankees and caught the only perfect game in World Series history in 1956, and yet, Yogi Berra is best remembered for the countless “Yogi-isms” we still quote today.

His remarkable life and career is chronicled in the new baseball documentary “It Ain’t Over,” which premieres in D.C. area movie theaters this week. The film is executive produced by Yogi’s granddaughter Lindsay Berra.

“I have to give full credit to our producer, Peter Sobiloff,” Berra told WTOP. “In the summer of 2018, he was dragged by his wife to go see the Mr. Rogers documentary and he ended up loving it. The next day was my grandfather’s museum golf outing and he saw my dad and uncles and said, ‘Hey, how come there’s no Mr. Rogers documentary but about your father?’ And they said, ‘Well no one’s ever made one,’ and he said, ‘Well can I?'”

The film features intimate interviews with Yogi’s three sons, Tim, Larry, and Dale Berra, who paint a picture of his off-field life. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1925, Berra served in the Navy during World War II, participating in the D-Day invasion, before ultimately settling in Montclair, New Jersey for a 65-year romance with his wife Carmen.


https://wtop.com/entertainment/2023/05/yogi-berra-documentary-it-aint-over-opens-in-dc-celebrating-baseball-legend-of-yankee-yogi-isms/

[3Hotdogs]

1. What I remember about Yogi.... It was about 1990. I had a table selling cards, about 10 feet from

where Yogi was featured, signing autographs. He was sitting behind the signing table for most of the day. Then, along came a parent, with a girl, about three years old. Yogi lit up. Got off the table to spend time with the girl. Nothing else in that room was important to him.


This struck me because my father was the same. If a toddler was around, my father would light up. It may be because my father was in the Navy, WW II when I was a toddler. He missed the first 4 years of my childhood. Then I read that Yogi was also in WW II.