Yogi Berra

Major leaguers Step to the plate this week for the start of another season, which means armchair general managers are digging in for a summer of box score combing and number crunching in fantasy baseball leagues....

Yogi Berra, after Milwaukee Brewer manager Phil Garner told him that he had said a Yogi-ism: "What's a Yogi-ism?"

•Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor, Yogi Berra: "Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law."

•Yogi Berra, New York Yankees manager, on a fancy White House dinner he attended recently: "It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking."

•Yogi Berra, New York Yankee manager, after accepting an invitation to dine at the White House this week: "I thought they said steak dinner, but then I found it was a state dinner."