Yogi Berra, a Hall of Fame catcher with the New York Yankees, won three Most Valuable Player awards and appeared in the World Series more times than any other player in history.
He was also a jovial figure whose knack for tangled tidbits of wisdom — “When you come to a fork in the road, take it”; “It ain’t over till it’s over” — transcended sports to make him one of the most universally beloved figures in American life. Mr. Berra died Sept. 22 at his home in Montclair, N.J., according to a statement from the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center. He was 90. [...]
Asked what time it was, he once replied, “Do you mean now?” [...]
“It’s déjà vu all over again,” he said, after his teammates Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris hit consecutive home runs. But the comment has come to imply that everything old is new again.