NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Yogi Berra has done it all, literally.
While he is known first as a Hall of Fame baseball player who has enough World Series rings to fill up all his fingers and then some, and enough great sayings to keep historians and pop culture buffs busy for generations, some of Berra’s greatest accomplishments off the field are just now being showcased for the whole country to see.
A petition has been created on the White House’s official website asking the Obama Administration to award Berra the Presidential Medal of Freedom “for his military service and civil rights and educational activism.