Baseball legend Yogi Berra.
Yogi Berra is known as a mainstay of the New York Yankees, died on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 or Wednesday morning GMT. Players who usually plays as a catcher was 90 years old.
"With heavy hearts we gave the news that Yogi Berra had died on Tuesday evening at the age of 90," the statement Yogi Berra Museum in The New York Times.
Berra is famous as the most successful players in Major League Baseball (MLB). He managed to get 10 World Series championship rings, more than any player in the history of baseball.
Born on May 12, 1925, Berra large and growing in the Italian settlement in New York. Had nearly become a professional baseball player, he chose three years as a member of the United States Navy in World War II.
After that, since 1946, the official Berra costumed Yankees and continue to be the primary choice until 1963. With the achievement 15 times selected to the All-Star team and won the MVP title three times in 1951, 1954, and 1955.
In addition, he also holds the record for most players who featured in the World Series 75 times. After retiring, Berra became coach of the Yankees in 1964, but was fired by the "Bronx Bomber" after failed to win the World Series.
He became coach of the New York Metz and the Houston Rockets, Berra finally retired from baseball in 1992. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972 and entered as a member of Major League Baseball's All-Century Team.
"We are very sad to lose legend Yankees and American heroes, Yogi Berra," Yankees wrote in a Twitter account, while change their profile photo to his jersey number 8. (VIVA.co.id)
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