Family, friends celebrate Yogi at N.J. museum

LITTLE FALLS, N.J. — Yogi Berra was as beloved in Montclair, N.J., as he was in the Bronx. Berra and his wife, Carmen Berra, moved their family to the hilly suburb in 1959, eight World Series titles and three Most Valuable Player Awards already under his belt. Berra spent nearly the next six decades there, raising his family, mentoring kids at summer camp and greeting trick-or-treaters at the door on Halloween.

“My father was home for every Halloween, and he gave out the candy,” said Larry Berra, one of Yogi’s three sons. “People were stunned. What player today would you think does that?”

Such memories were in abundance Sunday at the Montclair University museum that bears Yogi Berra’s name and is dedicated to remembering the life of one of baseball’s immortal figures. Through the museum’s hundreds of artifacts –there’s his first glove, there’s the newspaper he delivered as a boy in St. Louis — and the stories told by those he touched, Yogi’s presence is everywhere. So on Sunday, family, friends and fans from as far as Tennessee descended on the Yogi Berra Museum in Montclair to commemorate the Hall of Famer’s life just a little more than a year after his death at age 90 on …

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