Yogi Berra was so great, we forget how great he was.
Maybe that sounds like a bit of a Yogi-ism, but it's true. Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra was a legend whose celebrity and whose legacy far exceeded baseball. He served in the Navy during the D-Day invasion. He inspired a cartoon character. He was a Yoo-Hoo pitchman. His simple-yet-sage phrases made him, quite accidentally, one of the most quotable figures in history. And more than anything, this son of Italian immigrants who rose to the pinnacle of professional sports, served as the physical embodiment (small though that body might have been) of the American dream.