Yogi Berra Accomplishments

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Yogi Berra is known as one of the best baseball players to ever play. He was a catcher for the New York Yankees, and coached for the Yankees and the Mets. He also managed both teams. He was not the average baseball player, and had many obstacles to overcome before making it big. Yogi Berra was rejected by the Major League Baseball (MLB) at first, but persisted to change the game, which created a new era in the sport (Scharnhorst, 2002).

To embark, Yogi Berra was rejected many times before being the huge star that everyone knew. He was playing Triple A, then moved up to the MLB, and went back down to Triple A (Barnes, 2004) He was fired from being the Yankees manager because of losing in the World Series. He persisted and went back to the …show more content…

For example, he hit the first pinch hit home run in the world series (Scharnhorst, 2002). He quit school after eighth grade and played for the Yankees. And quite a bit of people say that he is one of the best players to play the game (Barnes, 2004). He changed how the game was played, and did really well in the process. He was outstanding, so in 1972 was introduced into the Hall of Fame. This was a huge accomplishment because, “Some of the most amazing performances in baseball history have been by players who never even came close to earning a place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame” (Rose, 2004). He outstandingly caught the first no-hit, no run, no man reach first game in the world series ( Rose, 2004).

Yogi Berra created a whole new era in the game. Because at the time he had one of the highest batting averages for catchers (Barnes, 2004). At one point he struck out 12 times out of 597 at-bats (Scharnhorst, 2002). That averages very high at 495. That is very high with the highest full season batting average 401. He completely changed the way that catchers were thought of in the major leagues and everywhere else. In the end, creating a new perspective of the whole game.

Along with being a great baseball player and manager, Yogi Berra overcame many challenges, and in the end turned out to be one of the best players. He changed the way the game was played and was brought into the

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