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He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus, and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing?
He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid.
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Pulitzer Prize winning columnist George Will has written extensively about baseball. and has said this about America's attraction to it. Quote, Sports serves society by providing vivid examples. of excellence. One of those examples is New York Yankee catcher and cultural icon.
Yogi Bera. Here's George Will. On high drive, that's coupled. And Yogidera, don't run high over the screen and into Bedford Avenue. Lean over it till it's over.
The 90th percent of this game is half metal. When you come to the fork in the road, take it. It's deja vu all over again. And the Yankees are champions. Look at Darrell.
Piggyback riding Buff Cadella. The 18-year-old U.S. Navy enlistee, thinking it sounded less boring than the dull training he was doing in 1944. volunteered for service on what he thought an officer had called rocket ships. Actually, they were small, slow, vulnerable boats used as launching pads for rockets to give close in support for troops assaulting beaches.
The service on those boats certainly was not boring. At dawn on June 6, 1944, that sailor was a few hundred yards off Omaha Beach. Lawrence Peter Berra, who died at ninety, had a knack for being where the action was. Because he stood When he stood, as a catcher he spent a lot of time crouching at baseball's most physically and mentally demanding position. five foot seven inches He confirmed the axiom that the beauty of baseball is that a player does not need to be seven feet tall or seven feet wide.
Fair enough, Wayne, and that one's gonna leave the ballpark.
Well, what do you know? Larry Sparrow, the Gollum Yogi. His very first time at the plate in the major leagues against the A's. And what does he do? He hits a home run.
The shortstop during Yogi's first Yankee years was an even smaller Italian American. 150 pound Phil Rosuto listed at a generous 5'6. Yogi had, as sports writer Alan Barra says in his book Yogi Barra Eternal Yankee, the winniness career in the history of American sports. He played on Yankee teams that went to the World Series 14 times in 17 years. He won ten World Series rings.
No other player is more than nine. He won three MVP awards. Only Barry Bonds has more with seven, but four of them probably tainted by. performance enhancing drugs. In seven consecutive seasons, nineteen fifty through nineteen fifty six.
Yogi finished in the top four in MVP voting. Only Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics 11 NBA Championships, 5 MVP awards. and Henri Richard of the Montreal hockey team. 11 NHL championships. have records of winning that exceed Yogis.
He grew up in what he and others called the Dago Hill section of St. Louis, when the Italian Americans who lived there did not take offense at the name. They had bigger problems. Biographer Alan Barra notes that in an 1895 advertisement seeking labor to build a New York reservoir, The ad said whites would be paid $1.30 to $1.50 a day. colored workers, a dollar twenty five to a dollar forty and Italians $1.15 to $1.25.
The term WAP may have begun as an acronym for the phrase without papers. as many Italians were when they arrived at Ellis Island. American sports and ethnicity have been interestingly entangled. The name Fighting Irish was originally a disparagement by opponents of Notre Dame. Which for many years had problems filling its football schedule because of anti-Catholic bigotry.
But sports also have been of a sense of apartness felt by ethnic groups. In 1923, the sporting news which for many decades was described as the Bible of baseball, except by the Baseball fans who describe the Bible as the spirit. News of religion. called the national pastime the essence of the nation. Quote.
In a democratic, Catholic, real American game like baseball, there has been no distinction raised except tacit understanding that a player of Ethiopian descent is ineligible. The mick, the sheeny, the wop, the Dutch, and the chink, the Cuban, the Indian, the Jap. the so-called Anglo-Saxon His nationality is never a matter of moment if he can pitch hit or field. Ah, diversity. In nineteen oh eight, the Sporting News said this about a Giants rookie, Charlie Buck Herzog.
Quote. The long nosed rooters are crazy whenever young Herzog does anything noteworthy. Cries of Herzog, Herzog, Goot Boy, Herzog. go up regularly. And there would be no let up, even if a million ham sandwiches suddenly fell among these believers in pursuit.
Percentages and bargains. David Moranis, in his biography of Pirate the Pirates Roberto Clementi, the first Puerto Rican superstar. Notes that as late as 1971, Clemente's 17th Yeah. One sports writer still quoted him in phonetic English. quote, if I have my good arm, the ball gets there a lethal quicker.
In 1962, Alvin Dark, manager of the San Francisco Giants, the speaking of Spanish in the clubhouse. Today, with three of the most common surnames in baseball being Martinez, Rodriguez and Gonzalez, Some managers speak Spanish. Yogi's great contemporary, the Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella, another three-time MVP. was the son of an African American mother and Italian American father. With two Italian-Americans on the Supreme Court, It is difficult to imagine how delighted Italian Americans were with their first national celebrity.
The elegant center fielder on baseball's most glamorous team, James. Joe DiMaggio. the son of a San Francisco fisherman. DiMaggio was big dago to his teammates. Yogi was little Dago.
and became the nation's most beloved sports figure. As Yogi said when Catholic Dublin elected a Jewish mayor, Only in America. And then a great job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Greg Hingler. And a special thanks to George Will for sharing the story of Yogi Bearer. Indeed.
Only in America. Yogi Barra's story. Here. on our American stories. This is Lee Habib, host of Our American Stories.
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That's our American stories. Dot com. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo?
I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house.
I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible.
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