Assignment #5:Who are your sports heroes?

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Who Are Your Sports Heroes?

By MICHAEL GONCHAR

 SEPTEMBER 24, 2015 5:00 AM

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Yogi Berra, one of baseball’s greatest catchers and the anchor to 10 Yankees championship teams, died on Tuesday at age 90. Seen here at Yankee Stadium in

CreditSam Falk/The New York Times

 Yogi Berra, one of baseball’s greatest catchers, died on Tuesday at age 90. He was a Yankees legend, and a hero for many fans.

Who are your sports heroes? Why?

In “Yogi Berra, Yankees Hall of Fame Catcher With a One-of-a-Kind Wit, Dies at 90,” Bruce Weber writes:

Yogi Berra, one of baseball’s greatest catchers and characters, who as a player was a mainstay of 10 Yankee championship teams and as a manager led both the Yankees and Mets to the World Series — but who may be more widely known as an ungainly but lovable cultural figure, inspiring a cartoon character and issuing a seemingly limitless supply of unwittingly witty epigrams known as Yogi-isms — died on Tuesday. He was 90.

The Yankees and the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Little Falls, N.J., announced his death. Before moving to an assisted living facility in nearby West Caldwell, in 2012, Berra had lived for many years in neighboring Montclair.

In 1949, early in Berra’s Yankee career, his manager assessed him this way in an interview in The Sporting News: “Mr. Berra,” Casey Stengel said, “is a very strange fellow of very remarkable abilities.”

And so he was, and so he proved to be. Universally known simply as Yogi, probably the second most recognizable nickname in sports — even Yogi was not the Babe — Berra was not exactly an unlikely hero, but he was often portrayed as one: an All-Star for 15 consecutive seasons whose skills were routinely underestimated; a well-built, appealingly open-faced man whose physical appearance was often belittled; and a prolific winner — not to mention a successful leader — whose intellect was a target of humor if not outright derision.

That he triumphed on the diamond again and again in spite of his perceived shortcomings was certainly a source of his popularity. So was the delight with which his famous, if not always documentable, pronouncements — somehow both nonsensical and sagacious — were received.

Write a response to the following questions:

1.   Who are your sports heroes? Why?

2.   Why do you admire them?

3.   Do you see them as role models off the field, as well as on? Why?