Driving Mr. Yogi
by Harvey Araton
Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift
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71%
Critic Reviews: 13
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Synopsis
Narrative of the friendship that's developed between Ron Guidry and Yogi Berra as a result of Berra's annual trips to Florida for Yankees spring training. "How would you like to hang out with Yogi Berra and Ron Guidry during spring training? Funny and sweet, Driving Mr. Yogi transports you there." - Jim Bouton, author of Ball Four It happens every spring. Yankees pitching great Ron Guidry arrives at the Tampa airport to pick up Hall of Fame catcher and... more
About Harvey Araton
Published: April 3, 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Genre: Sports & Outdoors, Biographies & Memoirs. Non-fiction. 240 pages
Critic Reviews for Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift
Add Critic Review- All Critics: 13
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Kirkus Reviews | 15 Jan 2012
A well-told tale of friendship with baseball as the backdrop.
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Lady at the Bat | 3 Apr 2012
Mr Araton does a great job of reminding readers that the Yankees not only honor their past but include it in the present.… He also gives an insightful look at the personalities ofeach man, personalities that, until I read the book, I didn't know existed.
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Agnes Mack's Books | 16 Apr 2012
Mr. Araton...wrote a well researched book peppered with fascinating behind the scenes baseball tidbits, and a generous, but appropriate, helping of stats.
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Deseret News | 31 Mar 2012
...our picture of Berra will be fuller and sweeter because of Ron Guidry's honor and Harvey Araton's book.
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It's About the Money | 12 Apr 2012
To call this book anything but enjoyable would be a lie. It is a challenge not to turn every page while smiling, as you hear Yogi’s voice in your head as you read his words.
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Book Reporter | 15 May 2012
There is very little in the book from today’s Yankee players and others in the organization that goes beyond the level of platitude. A fine book for a Yankee fan. For general readers, probably not.
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Macleans | 16 May 2012
After years of steroid scandals and cold-hearted business decisions, Araton has given us an old-fashioned story about the redemptive power of baseball.
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Sports Book Review Center | 13 Mar 2012
With that all said ... it seems like the story is a better fit for a long newspaper or magazine article than a book. There's some padding and duplication of material here in order to get the amount of words up to the size of a relatively short book. The 200-plus pages go by pretty quickly here.
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Lancaster Online | 19 May 2012
The problem with the book is that Araton has little emotional distance from the Yankees...The rapprochement between Steinbrenner and Berra...is given all the dramatic weight of Roosevelt meeting with Churchill at Yalta.
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Washington Independent Review of Books
You don’t have to know baseball to be moved by the mutual tenderness and respect each displays towards the other...It’s a baseball book for the whole family, not just the men in house.
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Publishers Weekly | 13 Feb 2012
...Araton has fashioned a tribute to the days when teams could be considered families, rather than a collection of constantly changing faces. The book should soothe the soul of the most cynical sports fan.
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St. Louis Today | 31 Mar 2012
Pro players are often portrayed as boors or boring human beings. Berra and Guidry have, blessedly, escaped that stereotype.
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Bailey's Baseball Book Reviews | 11 May 2012
Araton has stripped away the quipping, cartoon Yogi we see in Aflac commercials and shown us a man who might remind us of our own grandfather or father...
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