Lawrence Peter Berra was born May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. Berra grew up in St. Louis in a neighborhood called "The Hill." Lawrence got the nickname "Yogi" from a childhood friend, who said he looked like a snake charmer in a movie. You can believe it or not, but Yogi the Bear was named after Berra, which he really did not appreciate.

After returning home from World War II, Berra played in the minors and then got called to the majors. It was the New York Yankees that came calling for Berra. Yogi made his major league debut on September 22, 1946. The very next season he played more than eighty games, and then he would just play more and more games (over a hundred) every season. During Yogi's nineteen years with the Yankees, they were the most dominate baseball team. In those nineteen years, he appeared in fourteen World Series and won ten championships. Yogi holds many records in the World Series, like most of the players in his years. He had 259 at bats, 71 hits, 10 doubles and many more. In the 1947 World Series, Yogi had his first home run ever pinch hitting against the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher.

Berra ended his playing career after the 1963 World Series, after he was hired as the Yankees manager. Yogi Berra had many problems as manager, but one incident stands out from the rest involving a harmonica. All that aside, his number was retired by the Yankees in 1972 and the following year he was inducted into the Hall of Fame with 85% of the ballet.