Overheard: Bill Pascrell Channels Yogi Berra

By Jason Dick

Posted November 17, 2015 at 4:15pm

“I only wish Yogi was here to celebrate the news. … He said himself, ‘If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be,’ but today, it’d be close.”

— Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., on the news that baseball great Yogi Berra, who died in September, had been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as reported by PolitickerNJ
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