Yogi Berra Quotes
The future ain't what it used to be.
Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, Baseball Player and Manager, Quoted by General Norman Schwarzkopf, 1991This quotation is used by people of many professions from politics to science.]
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As a refugee from Communist Europe where history and memory constantly affect the lives of people for centuries if not millennia, he became a forward thinking individual and wanted to avoid people being mired in the past.
At the time, there were no major issues In contention for the nation, and bipartisanship became quite easy. That would change markedly in the following decades when the new questions came forward from reformers like Theodore Roosevelt and muckraking journalists. The new questions had to do with monopolies, trusts, corporate power, regulation, corruption and political machines.
Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra was an American professional baseball catcher, who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1946–1963, 1965), all but the last for the New York Yankees. He was an 18-time All-Star and won 10 World Series championships as a player—more than any other player in MLB history. Berra had a career batting average of .285, while hitting 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in. He is one of only six players to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.