Yogi Berra got no respect from the Associated Press. They sent out a wire alert yesterday morning saying, quote, “New York Yankees Hall of Fame catcher Yogi BEAR has died. He was 90.”
They corrected it later.
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When the cartoon character Yogi Bear debuted in 1958, Berra actually sued his creator, Hanna-Barbera.
But he later dropped the lawsuit. And Hanna-Barbera claimed the similarity was just a coincidence, but nobody has ever believed that because Yogi Berra was such a household name at the time.
By the way . . . Berra got the nickname “Yogi” playing legion ball, because of the way he would sit cross-legged on the ground like a Hindu yogi, waiting for his turn at bat. His real name was Lawrence.
