Yogi Berra played that major league team and did well, but he was still an unknown., but that was not for long.
He was in the majors with the Yankees at the tail end of the 1946 season and earned his first of ten World Series rings as a Yankee player in 1947 and was voted into his first All-Star game in 1948.
From Wikipedia.
Born 1925 Died September 22, 2015, age 90.
Lifetime Stats:
.285 batting average
358 home runs
1,430 RBIs
18-times All-Star
13 World Series Championships (some as a manager or coach)
3 times AL MVP: 1951, 1954, 1955.
Not Bad for a Swabbie. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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