The movie "It Ain't Over" just opened. https://www.usatoday.com/story...nt-over/70204310007/ Sounds like a good watch if it was on TV or Netflix.

I doubt there is any correlation, but vintage baseball cards of Yogi Berra have been increasing in value in recent years.

"It Ain't Over" is now on Netflix. The documentary makes a good case for Yogi being vastly underrated and disrespected in many ways. (I notice that in the last year his baseball cards have increased significantly in value.)

Just saw this post, Ken. Thank you. I'll look for it. I was crazy about baseball, baseball cards and the Yankees in the very early 1960s. Getting a Yogi Berra card ranked with finding a Mantle or Maris in that five-pack from Topps.

Back then I knew every starting lineup on every team. I was a Willie Mays fan. I was shocked when the Dodgers left Brooklyn and Giants left the Polo Grounds. They used to let us listen to the World Series games on a radio during school hours. A great time to be a kid. Never had to worry about someone shooting the place up with an AR.

I saw it the other night. It was well done.

During and after his career, Yogi was taken for granted all too much and did not get the credit or recognition as a ballplayer that he deserved so well.

Even the film condescended to him to some extent. But he was so genuine and down-to-earth that it was hard not to do so.

Still, he was an amazing baseball player and man and for anyone paying attention he did make his mark on the game.

Ten (10) World Series championship rings and three (3) American League Most Valuable Player awards. Hall of Famer.

Plus, he was a Navy veteran of the WWII D-Day landing on Utah Beach in Normandy.

They don't make them like Yogi anymore and it was great to see him get his due in this movie.

Saw Willie hit homers No. 597 and 598 against the Cubs at Candlestick, August 1969. Seems to me I was one of the boys with a transistor radio turned down low for the Series in fifth and sixth grade, but such was not permitted in junior high.
I'll look for this film.

The Say Hey Kid! I saw him play, too. At Wrigley Field. One of the greats!

My father, in the early 60s, drove us from Las Cruces, New Mexico to an exhibition game between the Red Sox and the Giants at a minor league park in El Paso, Texas. The minor league team (The Sun Kings) were a Giant affiliate, so the Giants were the home team.

The place was packed, so they allowed us to sit on the ground down the 1st Base and 3rd Base lines. We were sitting down the 3rd Base line. Willie didn't do anything into the 9th inning as I recall, and the Giants were losing.

I didn't move the whole game. Finally, I couldn't stand it any more. I HAD to go to the bathroom.

When they started the Giants last half of the 9th inning. Willie was about seven or eight batters away. I took off for the bathroom.

Everyone else had the same idea before the game ended. I could hear the announcer, and as I stood in the slow moving line, the Giants started to rally. By the time I finally got to the door of the bathroom, Willie was still about three batters way. Then things started happening.

By the time I was done taking a leak and trying to fight my way out of the bathroom and back out from under the stands, Willie hit a first pitch homer to left field with a couple of runners on to win the game. The only part I saw was him rounding third and scoring. My dad had to describe it to me.

(I believe Jesus Alou was playing for the El Paso Sun Kings.)