10. Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra served in the U.S. Navy as a gunner’s mate on USS Bayfield. He was a seaman second class and one of a six-man crew on a Navy rocket boat at the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach. 9. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It was awarded after he…

Makeup mogul Bobbi Brown doesn’t do the expected. The day after she left her eponymous cosmetics brand in late 2016, she was on to her next project: opening a boutique hotel. The property (debuting this March) is located not, as you might think, on a cobblestoned street corner in downtown Manhattan. Instead, it’s just…

The Montclair Foundation has made a grant in support of the Yogi Berra Museum's 2018 Veterans' Outreach Program. The funding will allow the museum to extend admission to all exhibits and programs to active and former military service people free of charge, as well as offer free tours to veterans groups. "We're happy to support…

“Dear Darling,” started Yogi Berra at the beginning of his many old-fashioned love letters to his wife Carmen. His effortless words described his game time away from her with trivial details about weather and his plans for the day. Tucked into a corner of the small but esteemed Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center is…

Seventy-six home runs are fastened on the wall inside the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center. This lineup of pictures of acclaimed baseball players is aptly titled "New York City's Golden Boys: 76 Baseball Portraits, 1946-1960." They're legendary stars of the New York Yankees, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. Joe DiMaggio. Jackie Robinson. Elston…

The Yogi Berra Museum has opened a new exhibition: New York City’s Golden Boys: 76 Baseball Portraits, 1946 – 1960, a series of seventy-six 8” x 10” oil paintings by renowned baseball artist Andy Jurinko. The show vividly documents the players that defined an era when New York boasted three major league ball clubs,…

MONTCLAIR — New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra will be remembered for more than just his time on the baseball field. The Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center will be hosting two events at the museum on Saturday, Oct. 7 to honor and remember the former catcher for serving his country during World War II. Eve…

For the third consecutive year, the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center will open its doors on Saturday, Sept. 23 to the public at no cost in honor of “baseball’s winningest player.” According to a museum news release, from noon to 5 p.m., the museum will offer activities for the whole family, including sports trivia,…

Fans of the New Jersey Jackals baseball team also interested in some summer reading will be in luck in July and August. On Sunday, July 23, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center, located on the campus of Montclair State University, Ira Berkow and Jay Jaffe will discuss their…