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Should Yogi Berra get a Yankee Stadium monument?

EstilEstil Posts: 6,866 ✭✭✭✭
In light of the passing of Yogi Berra, I was just wondering if you guys think he should get a monument at Yankee Stadium (well, Yankee Stadium III but that's not important) like Miller Huggins, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, and Joe DiMaggio have. Though I think Casey Stengel is well qualified for one too, I guess we don't want too many monuments either.

What do you guys think?
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Quarters: 61D, 52S, 47S, 46S, 40S, 39S, 38S, 37D+S, 36D+S, 35D, 34D, 32D+S
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  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    Yes.
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 22,721 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes

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  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes.

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  • VikingDudeVikingDude Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭
    Ditto
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Absolutely.


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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 29,357 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Without question yes
  • lbcoach20lbcoach20 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭
    Definitely yes
  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes. But if it gets too crowded there with visitors, no one will go there to visit it. A slant on a "yogism".
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  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not until Mattingly gets his.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,480 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Not until Mattingly gets his. >>



    I'm sure Donnie would hope not, as he has quite a few years left to live.



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  • EstilEstil Posts: 6,866 ✭✭✭✭
    You know what, Don Mattingly was my boyhood idol (as he's from nearby Evansville, IN) and all, but if he cannot even make the HOF, then no chance on the monument...he's got his shirt hung up and a plaque there, and isn't it true that some players consider jersey retirement an even greater honor than the HOF?
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    Dimes: 54S, 53P, 50P+S, 49S, 45D+S, 44S, 43D, 41S, 40D+S, 39D+S, 38D+S, 37D+S, 36S, 35D+S, all 16-34's
    Quarters: 61D, 52S, 47S, 46S, 40S, 39S, 38S, 37D+S, 36D+S, 35D, 34D, 32D+S
    74 Topps: 37,38,46,47,48,138,151,193,210,214,223,241,256,264,268,277,289,316,435,552,570,577,592,602,610,654,655
    1997 Finest silver: 115, 135, 139, 145, 310
    1995 Ultra Gold Medallion Sets: Golden Prospects, HR Kings, On-Base Leaders, Power Plus, RBI Kings, Rising Stars
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Not until Mattingly gets his. >>



    I'm sure Donnie would hope not, as he has quite a few years left to live. >>


    I might have been being a bit facetious, though I do think the monument would mean more if done while the player was living. It just seems in poor taste to discuss the day the player dies, kind of like selling autos at double the going rate.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would also rank Berra ahead of Mattingly in the pantheon of Yankee all time greats.


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  • EstilEstil Posts: 6,866 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Not until Mattingly gets his. >>



    I'm sure Donnie would hope not, as he has quite a few years left to live. >>


    I might have been being a bit facetious, though I do think the monument would mean more if done while the player was living. It just seems in poor taste to discuss the day the player dies, kind of like selling autos at double the going rate. >>



    Because that rule has been in place since the first monument, Miller Huggins. If they want to honor living players (as well as papal visits) that's what the retired numbers and plaques are for.
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    Dimes: 54S, 53P, 50P+S, 49S, 45D+S, 44S, 43D, 41S, 40D+S, 39D+S, 38D+S, 37D+S, 36S, 35D+S, all 16-34's
    Quarters: 61D, 52S, 47S, 46S, 40S, 39S, 38S, 37D+S, 36D+S, 35D, 34D, 32D+S
    74 Topps: 37,38,46,47,48,138,151,193,210,214,223,241,256,264,268,277,289,316,435,552,570,577,592,602,610,654,655
    1997 Finest silver: 115, 135, 139, 145, 310
    1995 Ultra Gold Medallion Sets: Golden Prospects, HR Kings, On-Base Leaders, Power Plus, RBI Kings, Rising Stars
  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    Roger Maris would rank higher than Mattingly on the monument list, in terms of impact on the franchise.
  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    The question asked in the headline deserves a visit from the Captain:

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  • Brian48Brian48 Posts: 2,624 ✭✭✭
    Not being a follower of the Yankees, I'm actually surprised that Yogi didn't already have a monument out there. Really? WTF?
  • EstilEstil Posts: 6,866 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Not being a follower of the Yankees, I'm actually surprised that Yogi didn't already have a monument out there. Really? WTF? >>



    You have to be dead to be eligible for a monument, again this goes all the way back to the first ones (Miller, Gehrig, Ruth in that order).
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    Dimes: 54S, 53P, 50P+S, 49S, 45D+S, 44S, 43D, 41S, 40D+S, 39D+S, 38D+S, 37D+S, 36S, 35D+S, all 16-34's
    Quarters: 61D, 52S, 47S, 46S, 40S, 39S, 38S, 37D+S, 36D+S, 35D, 34D, 32D+S
    74 Topps: 37,38,46,47,48,138,151,193,210,214,223,241,256,264,268,277,289,316,435,552,570,577,592,602,610,654,655
    1997 Finest silver: 115, 135, 139, 145, 310
    1995 Ultra Gold Medallion Sets: Golden Prospects, HR Kings, On-Base Leaders, Power Plus, RBI Kings, Rising Stars
  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes he should for all he did on and off the field.

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  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,332 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yessssss!

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  • EstilEstil Posts: 6,866 ✭✭✭✭
    Well we know he'll get a jersey sleeve patch this year (gee what a shocker...). No word though on a monument.
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    Dimes: 54S, 53P, 50P+S, 49S, 45D+S, 44S, 43D, 41S, 40D+S, 39D+S, 38D+S, 37D+S, 36S, 35D+S, all 16-34's
    Quarters: 61D, 52S, 47S, 46S, 40S, 39S, 38S, 37D+S, 36D+S, 35D, 34D, 32D+S
    74 Topps: 37,38,46,47,48,138,151,193,210,214,223,241,256,264,268,277,289,316,435,552,570,577,592,602,610,654,655
    1997 Finest silver: 115, 135, 139, 145, 310
    1995 Ultra Gold Medallion Sets: Golden Prospects, HR Kings, On-Base Leaders, Power Plus, RBI Kings, Rising Stars
  • MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,580 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Should have done it while he was alive...what were they thinking? Should have had a "Yogi Day" and doted on him for a while. Give the man a new Escalade, something...geez!!



    I'd venture a bet that the entire Red Sox Nation...100%, would vote for anything recognizing Yogi Berra. Why didn't the Yankee fans demand such recognition for such a universally beloved person?
  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: thebaseballcardkid
    With that number of rings? ummm yeah

    Fun fact:

    Yogi played in 10 WS for the winning team (always the Yankees).

    30 different players played in between 5 and 9 WS for the winning team, and in every single case at least one of those titles was with the Yankees.

    The most times anyone has played in the World Series for a winning team other than the Yankees is 4; there's too many to list here but the most prominent are Eddie Collins, Frankie Frisch and Gene Tenace.

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  • bishopbishop Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭
    Dallas--you have always been one of my favorite posters

    Yogi grew up in St Louis in the Italian Hill area, with his pal Joe Garagiola. His boyhood home on Elizabeth Street was still in the Berra family as of a year or so ago. At one time 3 HOFers lived on that street, Yogi, Joe G and Jack Buck

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  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yogi is a lock for a monument IMO. Mattingly, not as sure about that.

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No question. Don't think the second generation Steinbrenners' will want to p___off the Berra family and alienate them,like George alienated Yogi for 10 years.
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  • garnettstylegarnettstyle Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭✭
    No question is right. Arguably the greatest catcher ever and one of the greatest Yankees ever to play the game.

    Mattingly - No way

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  • Yogi long overdue. Donny shouldn't even be mentioned in the same paragraph.
  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,450 ✭✭✭
    absolutely deserves one. how does he not have one already? possibly the best catcher of all-time, 18 time all-star, 10 time world series champ, 3 time MVP, HOF + coach and manager of team.

    what more did he have to do?

    just my .02
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  • craig44craig44 Posts: 10,393 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How could he not have a monument. Greatest Yankee catcher ever.

    George Brett, Bobby Orr and Terry Bradshaw.

  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If Yogi gets one he should have one image
  • EstilEstil Posts: 6,866 ✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: baseballfan

    absolutely deserves one. how does he not have one already? possibly the best catcher of all-time, 18 time all-star, 10 time world series champ, 3 time MVP, HOF + coach and manager of team.



    what more did he have to do?



    just my .02




    I understand that they don't want too many monuments (that weird Steinbrenner one doesn't count BTW) but indeed, is there any Yankee living or dead (per monument tradition they do have to be dead to be eligible though) that's better qualified?



    And did you know that Bob Costas once said when he first went to Yankee Stadium (the original 1923-73 one) as a boy and saw the monuments, he honestly thought Ruth/Gehrig/Millins were buried there! It's a wonder they weren't!!!
    WISHLIST
    Dimes: 54S, 53P, 50P+S, 49S, 45D+S, 44S, 43D, 41S, 40D+S, 39D+S, 38D+S, 37D+S, 36S, 35D+S, all 16-34's
    Quarters: 61D, 52S, 47S, 46S, 40S, 39S, 38S, 37D+S, 36D+S, 35D, 34D, 32D+S
    74 Topps: 37,38,46,47,48,138,151,193,210,214,223,241,256,264,268,277,289,316,435,552,570,577,592,602,610,654,655
    1997 Finest silver: 115, 135, 139, 145, 310
    1995 Ultra Gold Medallion Sets: Golden Prospects, HR Kings, On-Base Leaders, Power Plus, RBI Kings, Rising Stars
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