“It Ain’t Over” opens in theaters in the New York tri-state area on Friday, which would have been Berra's 98th birthday.
Shooting began at the May 2019 launch of Dale Berra's book, “My Dad, Yogi: A Memoir of Family and Baseball.” Given the age of Yogi's contemporaries, time was of the essence. Shooting was interrupted by the pandemic.
The opening gets to the point directly: Berra was missing when Hank Aaron, Johnny Bench, Sandy Koufax and Willie Mays were introduced as the greatest living players at the 2015 All-Star Game in Cincinnati, two months before Berra's death at age 90. The so-called Franchise Four was determined by 25 million fan votes.Yogi was an 18-time All-Star — trailing only Aaron, Mays, Stan Musial, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams and Cal Ripken Jr.
When Berra was managing the Mets during the 1973 NL East race, he said: “You're not out of it until it's mathematical.” That evolved to the famous phrase attributed to Berra, used in the movie's title. "There's no definitive proof that he ever originated that exact phrase, but it didn't matter because as with every other aspect of his life, the myth outgrew the facts,” Lindsay says in her narration.
Lindsay regrets there was no space in the movie for Phil Rizzuto or Whitey Ford. The melodramas of the Berra family were covered: the cocaine addiction of son Dale, a major leaguer caught up in the 1985 Pittsburgh drug trials; and Yogi's firing as Yankees manager by George Steinbrenner 16 games into the 1985 season and 14-year exile until peace was negotiated by broadcaster Suzyn Waldman.“They had thought it was going to be a Billy Crystal or Bob Costas-type person.
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