Yogi Berra poses at Yankee Stadium in a photo dated April 17, 1947, and slides into home at Washington a day later. (AP photos)
“I haven’t seen this in like 60 years.”
Tears began to well up in Yogi Berra ’s eyes.
“This is what we used to wear in a doubleheader when it was 90 degrees in July. Feel that.”
What the 84-year-old Berra was holding in his hands and showing to those gathered around him was the wool flannel Yankees jersey he wore as a rookie in 1947.
On the front, of course, was the interlocked “NY” logo that has become one of the most iconic symbols in sports, the midnight navy blue felt stitched onto the pinstriped white uniform.
And on the back? No. 35.
Not No. 8, which is the number Berra wore during the vast majority of his 19-year Hall of Fame career -- the one th

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