Before the playoff game in a World Series with the Dodgers in Brooklyn, Casey Stengel said in the clubhouse, Well, this is it. Now who do you want to pitch? The 40 guys in the clubhouse shouted Raschi! so loud the Dodgers must have heard it across the way. That's what we Yankees thought of Raschi. What did Raschi have? He had a slider and a curve that wasn't too good, but what made him so rough was a fast ball that got them out. Funny thing about him was that he couldn't relieve as good as Toots Shor. The guy was built to finish what he started.
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Yogi Berra was a 20th-century American baseball player, manager, and coach. Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra was an American professional baseball catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), all but the last for the New York Yankees. Read more on Wikipedia →