I apologise for starting an off topic obit thread in the main, but I figured if it was correctly titled that you guys wouldn't mind. Besides, it's about sports, not politics or religion.
I just read a telegram that Yogi had sent to Johnny Bench on July 16th, 1980, long before emails, text messaging, and tweets. Here are the first two sentences:
"Congratulations on breaking my home run record (for catchers). I always thought the record would stand until it was broken."
How typical is that!
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-l ... 39470.html
Berra is one of the last of the old time athletes that had their careers interrupted by war. He served on a gunboat during the D-Day invasion in June of 1944. Oh, how the country has changed!