Yo-Gi Yo-Gi from bookish, a weblog by George Girton

Yo-Gi Yo-Gi . . . . . apr 27 2003 — bookish68.dat

A crash visit to the Beverly Hills Library (free books, free parking!) netted two finds, Yogi Berra's collected wisdom (written with) and Richard Marcinko's Navy Seal thriller 'Violence of Action', (written without)

I'm not a big baseball fan, but I found the title to Yogi's book irresistable: "What time is it? You mean now? Advice for life from the Zennest master of them all." [buy at amazon] . by Yogi Berra.

Each chapter is one of those sayings Yogi is famous for, listed in alphabetical order according to the most loose of possible rules: the saying had to have the letter of the alphabet in it. When I have time a little later on today, I'll come back and type in the table of contents for the book.

The Marcinko was gruesome and not for the squeamish, but still had moments of unsurpassed outrageous crudeness that were so outre that you just had to raise your eyebrows and crack up laughing. I know some of you won't be happy if I don't put in the link because you want to read it anyway, so here it is but I think you'll be happier if you check this icky book out of the library instead of buying it. For one thing, it solves the problem of what to do with the book after you're done with it.

Here's Yogi's Table of Contents, all quotes:

I Ain't in a slump, I'm just not hitting
Baseball's different today, but it isn't.
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
Are you dead yet?
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there.
Ninety percent of this game is half-mental.
I really didn't say everything I said.
Why be jealous over things you don't have?
Little league is good because it keeps parents off the street and kids out of the house.
Little things are big.
We made too many wrong mistakes.
It's so crowded, nobody goes there.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I've had a couple of those.
If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Congratulations - I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
Someone's got to win and someone's got to lose, and that was us.
Pair up in threes.
The future ain't what it used to be.
It's deja vu all over again.
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
He's learning me his experience.
I looked like this when I was young, and I still do.
You saw Dr. Zhivago? Why? Aren't you feeling well?

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