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[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Yogi Berra, who was named for either a generic or a specific yogi.
>

"[O]ne day in his early teens, young Larry and some friends had gone to the
movies and were watching a travelogue about India when a Hindu yogi
appeared on the screen sitting cross-legged. His posture struck one of the
friends as precisely the way Berra sat on the ground as he waited his turn
at bat. From that day on, he was Yogi Berra."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/sports/baseball/yogi-berra-dies-at-90-yankees-baseball-catcher.html
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