You'd better go to other people's funerals, else they won't go to yours. Even if you don't know the source of the quip -- that'd be Lawrence Peter Berra, known to the world as Yogi -- it'll follow its speaker to the grave. Like Casey Stengel, another of baseball's never-ending fortune cookies, Berra had the luck to reign over the sport when writers, not television, were the arbiters of fame. Writers, unlike microphones, had (and have) a way of massaging quotes in the retelling, and someone with ...
You'd better go to other people's funerals, else they won't go to yours. Even if you don't know the source of the quip -- that'd be Lawrence Peter Berra, known to the world as Yogi -- it'll follow its speaker to the grave. Like Casey Stengel, another of baseball's never-ending fortune cookies, Berra had the luck to reign over the sport when writers, not television, were the arbiters of fame. Writers, unlike microphones, had (and have) a way of massaging quotes in the retelling, and someone with ...
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