Those were the actual directions to his house in Montclair, NJ. It was at the very end of a cul-de-sac, so when you came to the fork in the road, it didn't matter which one you took.

So true!!

nobody goes there anymore.

He was certainly a unique person.

That said, the Aflac Insurance commercial he did was one of the funniest ones ever.

RIP. A Great One has passed. We must keep his unique form of wisdom in our hearts.

Yogi did a pre-game interview with his old buddy (and close friend from their childhood on The Hill in St. Louis) Joe Garagiola. For that Yogi was to get some money. When Gargiola gave Yogi the check it was made out "Pay to The Order of __________ with the blank filled in with "Bearer." Yogi looked at Joe and said "geez Joe, after all these years can't you spell my name?"

My favorite quote - when the Yankees put Yogi in left field to save his legs and get Ellie Howard's bat in the line up, Yogi observed that shadows arrived early in left with this "It gets late early out here."

Every baseball fan, particularly Pirates fans, remembers the 1960 World Series, in which Pittsburgh beat the Yankees four games to three on Bill Mazeroski's home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7. The last man to see that ball leave the yard was Yogi Berra, playing left field:

His wife asked him if he wanted to be buried in his hometown of St.Louis or in Montclair, NJ, where they lived for over 50 years. He said, "I don't know. Surprise me!"

Thanks, I never heard that one before.

A true philosopher. Well, he was a catcher, that follows.

-- Mal