--- title: Yogi Berra Dead: Photos of First Years as a New York Yankee description: A look at why the baseball great, who has died at 90, made pitchers so nervous canonical: https://time.com/3849178/yogi-berra-2/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-12T12:00:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T10:02:20.000Z og:title: See Photos From Yogi Berra’s First Years in the Major Leagues og:description: A look at why the baseball great, who has died at 90, made pitchers so nervous og:url: https://time.com/3849178/yogi-berra-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf96ecbe0eceae2f/6987eeada988caad516b08bb/150506-yogi-berra-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 og:image:alt: Yogi Berra, 1949. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See Photos From Yogi Berra’s First Years in the Major Leagues twitter:description: A look at why the baseball great, who has died at 90, made pitchers so nervous twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf96ecbe0eceae2f/6987eeada988caad516b08bb/150506-yogi-berra-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Photos From Yogi Berra’s First Years in the Major Leagues > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:02 AM UTCPublished: May 12, 2015 12:00 PM UTC  Yogi Berra, 1949. Yogi Berra, 1949. George Silk & Bernard Hoffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:02 AM UTCPublished: May 12, 2015 12:00 PM UTC In 1949, when Lawrence “Yogi” Berra was just three seasons into his career in professional sports—before he had racked up all the MVPs and the All-Star selections and the Hall of Fame induction that made for a baseball cap brimming with feathers—LIFE profiled the relative newcomer. Specifically, the 24-year-old Berra, who died on Tuesday at 90, would hit just about anything that came his way. Though he was formidable as a catcher, it was his batting that induced anxiety in pitchers. “All season long he has been approaching the ball as if he intended to beat it to death,” wrote LIFE’s Ernest Havemann. “Opposing pitchers have no idea what to do about him, and are inclined to get highly nervous every time he comes up to bat.” His teammate, third baseman Bobby Brown, described Berra’s approach to batting as follows: “Yogi has the biggest strike zone in the U.S. It goes from his ankles to his nose, and from his breastbone as far out as he can reach.” And Brown wasn’t exaggerating, as Havemann continued: “Yogi can use his bat like a golfer blasting the ball out of a sand trap, like a traffic cop reaching toward the far line of cars with a nightstick, or like a man with a swatter straining for a mosquito on the ceiling.” Unconventional as it may have been, Berra’s skill led to a decorated career with the Yankees, followed by a brief stint playing for the Mets and coaching gigs with the Mets, Yankees and Astros. Off the field, he enjoyed a long marriage to his wife Carmen, with whom LIFE photographed him when the two were expecting the first of their two sons. “The moral seems to be that you can’t get a good man down,” Havemann wrote. “Yogi is a good man.” _Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at_ [_@LizabethRonk_](https://twitter.com/LizabethRonk)_._  Yogi Berra, 1949. George Silk & Bernard Hoffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Yogi remembers his mask as he leaves the dugout for the June 24th game with Detroit. He knocked in four of Yankee's five runs with a double and a homer. Bernard Hoffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Yogi Berra with his wife Carmen at home, 1949. George Silk & Bernard Hoffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Yogi relaxes with type of reading he likes next best to comic books. He once asked a teammate studying a medical textbook, "How did it come out?" George Silk—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Yogi Berra playing cards with his wife, Carmen, 1949. George Silk & Bernard Hoffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Baseball player Yogi Berra relaxing at home, 1949. George Silk—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Yogi Berra, 1949. George Silk & Bernard Hoffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Yogi Berra, 1949. Bernard Hoffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Yogi Berra, 1949. George Silk & Bernard Hoffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Devoted wife Carmen, who is 22, a former waitress, busses Yogi before he leaves for clubhouse. They expect a little rookie about Christmas time. 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