When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes - Hardcover

Berra, Yogi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786236019 ISBN 13: 9780786236015

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Berra, Yogi, Kaplan, David

About this title

Review:

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 déjà 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

About the Author:

Yogi Berra is a baseball legend, a Hall-of-Famer who played on 10 Yankees' World Championship teams, was a three-time MVP, and was selected for 18 All-Star Teams. He also managed both the Mets and the Yankees to pennant wins. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife, Carmen.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786236019
• ISBN 13: 9780786236015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208