Yogi Berra

Reviews

"It has fallen to Allen Barra, one of the most erudite sportswriters in America...to tell the Yogi story in all its glory and nuance. In Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee, he walks the reader through contract squabbles, spring training, confrontations with the Red Sox, World Series victories and the sportswriters’ exaggerations that created the Yogi myth." — David M. Shribman, Bloomberg

"Starred Review. A full-scale biography of the most quoted and, possibly, the most underrated player in baseball history.... A superior sports book bound to interest more than just die-hard fans, ranking with classics like Robert Creamer’s Babe: The Legend Comes to Life (1974) and Richard Ben Cramer’s Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life (2000)." — Kirkus Reviews

"Although Barra includes lots of play-by-play action in his book, he shows enough skill as a writer to prevent his book from becoming one big box score recast as simple declarative sentences. His game action stresses context and the development of Yogi as both a batter and a receiver." — Harry Levins, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"What a felicitous match, Barra on Berra. One of America’s most insightful and precise sports writers artfully separates the myth from the reality of the iconic Yogi. Count me among the Yankee haters who devoured this book." — David Maraniss, author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero