When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
A collection of appealing, funny, and surprisingly moving essays on life, happiness, and getting through the slumps from the bestselling author and celebrated athlete. Filled with more of Yogi's inimitable and unwittingly wise aphorisms, these reflections focus on the valuable lessons Berra has learned on and off the field. From his early years as an immigrant's son through his triumphant career as a player and manager who played in a record seventy-five World Series games, Yogi illustrates his homespun philosophies with apt analogies to his baseball stories. This wise, humble, touching book is vintage Yogi Berra--in short, deja vu all over again.
Three-time MVP and Hall of Famer Yogi Berra hit home runs twice in a row with his two previous books, The Yogi Book and It Aint Over. Now, his winning streak continues as the celebrated athlete and true American hero speaks about life, baseball, and the forks in the road.Filled with the baseball legends inimitable and unwittingly wise aphorisms from It aint over till its over to You cant think and hit at the same time, these reflections focus on the valuable lessons he learned on and off the field.
Hall of Fame philosopher Yogi Berra's When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! is another volume of musings and malaprops, and the advice implicit in the title is sound indeed. Just listen: "Throughout life you come to serious forks in the road--decisions," Yogi tells us. "Which path do you choose? Sometimes it's tough. People are always afraid of making the wrong choice." Not Yogi, who explains that tragedy lies in paralysis, not bad choices or regrets, and offers personal examples from on and off the field to prop up his profundity.
Like its predecessor, The Yogi Book, Fork is essentially a collection of Yogi's well-traveled observations from out of left field, but it's much more than just d?j? vu all over again. Instead of explaining, as he has before, what prompted a particular Yogi-ism or what he was really trying to say, Yogi does his best to go deep. The charm is that Yogi's so guileless, he makes it work--there's sagacity in his simplicity. Each Yogi-ism gets its own short chapter in which Yogi riffs off the phrase to dispense a bit of homespun wisdom and inspiration. "It gets late early out there"--we get old before we're ready, but here's how to cope with it. "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him"--we all need to be true to ourselves. With Yogi's latest career as a successful author, not only ain't it over for him, there's happily no end in sight. --Jeff Silverman
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| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 14, 2007 Type: User Review |
Yogi-isms explained by Yogi
While the basis of this book is a collection of some of the Yogi-isms, which always contain a great deal of truth, the best part is that Yogi explains his thoughts on each one of them, While he was a great player for a series of great Yankee...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 02, 2005 Type: User Review |
Come for the Wisdom, Stay for the Photos
Yogi Berra has learned that when someone offers to publish your book, take it. Make the most of living, it can get late early out there. Better make your book forty chapters, the public may not be hungry for fifty.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 02, 2005 Type: User Review |
A Fast Fun Read
Yogi surprisingly give some good words of wisdom and convinces us that there is more to the mental make-up of one of the greatest ballplayers ever than the quotes that he is known for.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 25, 2004 Type: User Review |
We can all learn a lot from Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra is an American treasure, epitomizing many of the things that make America great. As a legend in life as well as a legend in baseball, the common-sense pearls of wisdom that drop from his lips are as instructive as they are humorous. I...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 18, 2004 Type: User Review |
Straight talk from Yogi
This collection of short snippets of wisdom from Yogi Berra is an enjoyable and ,yes, profitable read. Yogi is a man of great integrity and dignity and those qualities shine through on every page of this simple and relatively quick read. Pick it...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 04, 2002 Type: User Review |
Wit and Wisdom abounds from this unlikely philospher!
You don't need to be a baseball fan to enjoy (and benefit from) the words of wisdom in Yogi Berra's book, "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!". Yogi explains and refines the numurous malapropisms that he noted for is this short and...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 18, 2002 Type: User Review |
Great, quick read.
Yogi is still a lovable character to read. His words aren't just silly misquotes he's said throughout the years. When you read what Yogi meant by his short "yogi-isms", there is logical and heartfelt meaning behind the saying and the man. This...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 29, 2001 Type: User Review |
"He's Learning Me All His Experience"
This famous Yogi-ism not only is the subject of one of the chapters in this very entertaining book, but it could just as well be the title of the book itself. Reading this gem reminded me of getting to spend an afternoon discussing life and its...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 30, 2001 Type: User Review |
A must read
Even if you are not a yogi fan or a Yankees fan..this is a book that you will enjoy. Down home, no BS plain and simple lessons in life A book you can read in small or large doses GT
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| From: Amazon Posted: Sep 02, 2001 Type: User Review |
One of a Kind Inspiration
For a man who only reached eighth grade, Yogi truly is an genuis. Applying a lot of common sense philosophies and ideas, he has put together at times a funny, inspirational, and entertaining book. He applies a lot of what he learned in baseball to...
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