New Jersey set another world record on Sunday — inspired by the legacy of Yogi Berra — and I was lucky enough to be part of it.

Participating with my 12-year-old, Travis, was an easy call after hearing the stadium named for the late Yankees and Mets baseball icon was planning to assemble the largest-ever game of catch.

Yogi’s Big Catch was seeking to dethrone Dadfest , which took place on Father’s Day in 2017 in Illinois and set a Guinness World Record with 972 pairs of people tossing balls to each other.

The New Jersey attempt to set the record was the latest in a series of events organized by the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center in Little Falls to mark the centennial of Berra’s birth in 1925. The museum overlooks Yogi Berra Stadium on the campus of Montclair State University

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