What Did Yogi Berra, Ernie Banks & Cod Liver Oil Have In Common?
The year was 1953. Yogi Berra suddenly began having trouble at the bat. The Yankees didn’t send for a batting coach. Yogi’s swing was not something that can be taught, therefore it couldn’t be corrected. There isn’t a batting coach alive who can correct a wing that frequently knocks wild pitches out of the park. It took Yankee manager Casey Stengel to come up with the culprit DIET! Anyone who ate the things Yogi Berra did should have trouble with the curve ball sooner or later, Casey believed. People forgot that Casey had studied dentistry and knew that sugar ruined more good ball players and booze. Casey called in nutritionist Dale Alexander, a man whose surest diagnostic tool was the handshake. Most doctors peer down the throat or check the eyes. Dale Alexander would check the grip. If the hand is cold, the rest of you soon might be as well. Yogi’s hands were not only cold, they were scaly. It was like shaking hands with a fish. Yogi had eczema. “He couldn’t grip a bat, his anxious h
