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Yogi berra deja vu all over1/9/2024 Entitled “Thanks to You,” the first two verses of the poem were:Īnd in 1966, Clifford Terry, a critic for the Chicago Tribune, added “all over again” to make it “it’s déjà vu all over again,” when he reviewed a cheap spy movie that repeated all the tired cliches of that genre. Petersburg Evening Independent on September 22, 1962. Florida poet, Jim Prior, published a light-hearted poem in the St. The best we can say is that the _idea_ of “déjà vu again (or all over again)” seems to have been floating around the culture, starting in the early 1960s. Yet, by 1998 he changed his mind and thought it had originated with him. And Yogi himself denied in 1987 that it was one of his Yogi-isms. Further, “déjà vu all over again” attributions to Yogi Berra didn’t really appear until the mid-1980s. Yogi Berra may have said “déjà vu all over again” after Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle hit back-to-back home runs in a Yankee game in 1961, but there’s no record of it. Garson O’Toole, the famous Quote Investigator (whose excellent book “Hemingway Didn’t Say That: the Truth Behind Familiar Quotations”) is on the Buzzkill Bookshelf, has done the best research on this. Berra’s sayings became “Yogi-isms” and ran through the popular press like wildfire.īut one of the best-known “Yogi-isms,” “It’s like déjà vu all over again,” has a complicated history, Buzzkillers. They helped him acquire the nickname “Yogi” (after Hindu practitioners of yoga who were also thought to be holy men and fonts of enlightenment). These sayings were quirky, funny, and full of unintentional wisdom. He’s better-known in the wider culture, however, as the supposed author of off-the-cuff quips and pithy statements that were, as often as not, malapropisms and paradoxical. Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972 and named to Baseball’s All-Century Team in 1999, Berra was one of the most dominant players of the second half of the 20th century. In his 18 years with the New York Yankees, he anchored them at catcher, was a power hitter, and a mainstay for the team during their famous post-war run of dominance in Major League Baseball. Louis in 1925 and went on to become one of the most famous players in baseball history.
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