Did Yogi Berra really say all those things he said?
Berra, who died at 90 on Tuesday, was one of professional baseball’s most famous figures, known as much for his memorable quips as for his excellence on the field. But the origin of many of these so-called Yogi-isms is murky — and some he never said at all.
Berra playfully acknowledged the twisted attribution over the decades, characteristically revealing nothing and everything in his responses. (“I might have said ’em, but you never know,” he once said.) In 1998, he published an aptly titled book on the matter, “The Yogi Book: I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said.