The baseball community, and world as a whole, lost a great man today. Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra passed away at 90 years old and 69 years to the day that he made his MLB debut.
Yogi Berra was born in the St. Louis Italian neighborhood called “The Hill” to Italian immigrants Pietro and Paolina Berra on May 12, 1925. His father arrived at Ellis Island on October 18, 1909 with his mother and two brothers arriving later. In a 2005 interview for the Baseball Hall of Fame, Yogi said,
“My father came over first. He came from the old country.