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yogi berra was born.
May 12, 1925 the legond, yogi berra, was brought into the world in St. Louis, Missouri. yogi was not his birth name was Lawrence Peter Berra as a young child yogi got the name because his friend thought he looked like a snake catcher from a movie named yogi. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/yogi-berra-yankees-icon-mlb-hall-famer-dies-90-n432061 -
berra joins the mets.
Berra offically stopped playing for the mets in 1943 and started playing for the yankees. hes spent a big portion of his life with the yankees. http://www.centerfieldmaz.com/2015/05/remembering-mets-history-1965-yogi.html -
berra signs with yankees.
1943 - yogi Signs with the New York Yankees and plays with the Norfolk Tars of the Class B Piedmont League before being drafted into the navy. http://www.thekongblog.com/2015_09_01_archive.html -
yogi is drafted into the U.S navy.
http://www.biography.com/news/yogi-berra-dies-at-90' When Yogi turned 18, he put his baseball career on pause and joined the Navy in 1943. Trained as a gunner's mate, Yogi worked on a rocket launching boat and served on D-Day. He said about the invasion that "Being a young guy, you didn‘t think nothing of it until you got in it. And so we went off 300 yards off beach. We protect the troops." For the next twelve days his boat was ordered to shoot down enemy aircraft. They accidentally shot down an American plane, but managed to save the pilot. -
he gets married.
yogi Berra marrys carmen berra and has 3 kids. 1949–2014 http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/yogi-berra-granddaughter-shares-touching-tribute-article-1.2371622 -
hes finaly an mvp.
yogi is aworded first "mvp aword" http://www.thekongblog.com/2015_09_01_archive.html -
wins his 2nd mvp.
yogi is aworded his second "mvp aword" http://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/yogi-berra-1940s-2012/ -
hes MVP for the 3rd time.
1955 - yogi is aworded his theird "American League MVP award". http://wnpr.org/post/baseball-legend-yogi-berra-dies-90#stream/0 -
yogi and don larsen have a perfect game.
yogi Catches while Don Larsen pitches a perfect game in the 1956 World Series. this game was considerd to be one of the best games for the yankees in there history of being a team.
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yogi plays his last season.
yogi played his last season playing for the Yankees in 1963. after playingfor 26 years yogi becomes older and less able to play. so he retires but soon comes back. https://instantsportsnet.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/yankee-great-and-hall-of-famer-yogi-berra-dies-at-90/ -
yogi is aworded in the hall of fame.
yogi is ellected into the baseball hall of fame in 1972 http://wnpr.org/post/baseball-legend-yogi-berra-dies-90#stream/0 -
yogi becomes coach.
yogi Is hired by the Yankees as a coach in 1976 and is pretty succesful http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2015/sep/23/yankees-hall-fame-catcher-yogi-berra-dies-90/326661/ -
he becomes a yankees manager
yogi is named manager of the Yankees after being a coach for ten years. http://www.thenationalpastimemuseum.com/article/honoring-yogi-berra-what-he-really-said -
the legand dies.
yogi berra dies in his sleep of old age on September 22, 2015 in New Jersey
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