What was the nickname of Lawrence Peter Berra, a former Major League Baseball player and manager who played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972?
1972 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting 1972 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1972 followed the system established one year earlier. The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from recent major league players and elected three: Yogi Berra, Sandy Koufax, and Early Wynn. The Veterans Committee met in closed sessions to consider executives, managers, umpires, and earlier major league players. It also selected three people: Lefty Gomez, Will Harridge, and Ross Youngs. The Negro Leagues Committee met for the second time and selected Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard. The BBWAA was authorized to elect
New York State Baseball Hall of Fame New York State Baseball Hall of Fame The New York State Baseball Hall of Fame is a hall of fame based in Ballston Lake, New York in the United States, founded in 2010 as an achievement award for baseball in the state. The group was founded by its current Executive Director, Rene LeRoux, originally to include Upstate New York members, and later expanded to include the entire state in 2012. The New York State Baseball Hall of Fame inducts people on every level of with the game of baseball, including Major League Baseball (MLB) players, managers, broadcasters, writers, college baseball