I knew Yogi had something to do with baseball but if all ever did was come up with great sayings, that alone would've justified a lengthy obit in the Times -- I've always found it funny the kind of people who pat themselves on the back for quickly seeing that a Yogi-ism is "dumb", as if they're excited to discover someone in the world dumber than they -- but I had no idea at all that he was so great a player to be considered the best catcher in the history of the sport.

Reminds me of Steve Wozniak, whose antics and pranks and baffling generosity are so amazing that you almost forget that he was also, incidentally, a freakishly outstanding engineer, and a co-founder of Apple.