Quote of the day

Yogi Berra batting during the 1956 season in a game at Cleveland

Onetime New York Yankees third baseman-left fielder Hector Lopez on former teammate and Hall of Famer Yogi Berra:

“Yogi had the fastest bat I ever saw. He could hit a ball late, that was already past him and take it out of the park. The pitchers were afraid of him because he’d hit anything, so they didn’t know what to throw. Yogi had them psyched out and he wasn't even trying to psych them out.”

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