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Born in an area of St. Louis called the Hill, Berra was originally nicknamed Lawdie, a bastardization of his name Lawrence. He picked up his nickname from a friend who said he resembled a Hindu holy man ( yogi). (The Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Yogi BearYogi Bear is a cartoon character (an upright bear) created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Yogi debuted in 1958 as a supporting character on the Huckleberry Hound show. He became very popular, and in 1961 was given his own show. Over the years he would appe was named after Berra.) He began playing baseball in local American Legion leagues, where he learned the basics of play as a catcher. After rejecting an offer from the St. Louis CardinalsThe St. Louis Cardinals was also the name of a National Football League team based in Saint Louis, Missouri, which moved and became the Phoenix Cardinals (now known as the Arizona Cardinals) in 1988. The St. Louis Cardinals are an American Major League Ba, he signed with the Yankees in 1942Events January January 1 World War II: The word " United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact. January 2 World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. January 5 Amy Johnson disappears in flight over River Thames estuary ass. He is generally considered to be one of the best catchers in history. In two recent (2004) approaches by sabermetriciansSabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence, especially baseball statistics. The term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research. It was coined by Bill James, who has been its most Berra is ranked first by the Bill JamesThis article is about Bill James, the writer about baseball and sabermetrics. For other individuals with the same name, see below. Bill James (born June 18, 1949 at Mayetta, Kansas) is an important and influential baseball writer, and is its most influent Win SharesBaseball statistics Win Shares is a book (BooksEnthsiast.com) about baseball written by Bill James, published by STATS, Inc. It takes a sabermetric approach to evaluating the contribution of individual players to their teams' overall performance, and focuses method and third by the Total Baseball Total Player RatingTotal player rating (TPR) is a metric for measuring the value of baseball players, and to enable players to be compared against each other even when they played for different teams, at different positions, and in different eras. It was developed by saberm method.

Berra is also quite famous for his tendency toward malapropismA malapropism (from French mal a propos "ill to purpose") is an incorrect usage of a word, usually with comic effect. The term comes from the name of Mrs Malaprop a character in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy, The Rivals ( 1775), whose name was in tur and fracturing the English language in highly provocative, interesting ways; see Yogiisms.