"Nobody Goes There--It's Too Crowded" (1957)

[Gerald Cohen]

    About 15 years ago an article (by William Safire, I think) mentioned that
Yogi Berra was being credited with many sayings that he had never really said.
It was sort of cool to say, "As Yogi Berra would say,..." and then
fill in the blank with whatever folksy philosophical or mildly
nonsensical statement one had in mind.

     Looks like one more might now be added to the list. (I say
"might" because Berra was already in the major leagues by 1957).

Gerald Cohen

P.S. His most famous saying is "It ain't over 'til it's over." Is
that one of his genuine contributions?



At 2:38 AM -0500 12/24/03, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>    This is attributed to New York Yankee player and manager Yogi Berra.  Some
>say the restaurant was Mama Leone's.  However, here it is, at an early date,
>in a Walter Winchell column.  John McNulty wrote for THE NEW YORKER:
>
>    30 September 1957, AUGUSTA CHRONICLE (GA), pg. 12, col. 1:
>    _Walter Winchell_
>_Madison Ave, going "Mad"_
>    MADISON AVENUE (the Home of Big Advertising) is now called Mad Avenue, for
>obvious reasons..."The World of John McNulty" is a readable collection of his
>essays.  It includes a cabbie's classic crack about a popular joynt: "Nobody
>goes there any more.  It's too crowded."
>
>(CATNYP)
>The world of John McNulty, with an appreciation by James Thurber.
>Imprint Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1957
>