Ah, here's a nice retro baseball-Thanksgiving story as we all prepare to head into an extended holiday weekend filled with gobbling, gluttony and America's "other" favorite sport.
Twenty five years ago, New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra woke up in his New Jersey home to find two truckers and three members of the Red River Valley Potato Growers Association unloading 23 tons of North Dakota-grown potatoes in his front yard.
As might be expected, the funny situation was a product of an off-the-cuff remark by Yogi.
From the Associated Press on Nov. 26, 1985:
The delivery continued a joke launched by Berra when he visited the state last year and local officials told him that North Dakota was among the nation's largest growers of potatoes.
Berra, a self-proclaimed potato lover, reportedly said, "You don't have enough potatoes to fill my front lawn."
"I don't know if I ever said that," Berra said. "What the heck, it's fun. I know one thing, I'll get enough potatoes for the rest of the year."
Turns out that Yogi was just joking about going on an all-gnocchi diet. The caption on these old AP file photos say that the potatoes were soon trucked into New York and distributed to needy people.
(Though I'm sure if you need more spuds to make these ridiculously good-looking beer battered mashed potato balls, Yogi might have a couple of extra cases still laying around.)
Anyway, the entire crew here at Big League Stew would like to wish all of you a very happy and stuffed Thanksgiving. We're thankful you take the time to read us every day and we're thankful for the great 2010 season that just passed.
Let us celebrate with the Joe D. turkey leg pic that never gets old.
P.S. — We'll be around this weekend if any big news breaks. But if it doesn't, we'll see you next Monday. Safe travels, everyone.
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