East Orange Campus High School’s Allyssa Adams has earned the 2017 Investors Bank Best Teammate Award. Allyssa, along with student-athletes from high schools in the Super Essex Conference, were recently recognized during ceremonies at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center. A senior, she played on the Jaguars’ varsity volleyball team as well as…
It's been quite a senior year for Max Thompson of Glen Ridge High, and last week he received a prestigious honor by being named a recipient of the Investors Bank Best Teammate Award. Thompson received the accolade at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center. The late Yogi Berra, the Hall of Fame…
For the fifth consecutive year, the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center hosted student athletes from each of the 38 member schools of the Super Essex Conference along with their families for a celebration of the qualities that made Yogi a national treasure. Recipients of the Investors Bank Best Teammate Award exemplify the strength…
Angelique Fisk | Lifestyle Editor, Patriots.com Even years after Yogi Berra retired from baseball, you would be hard-pressed to find a kid in a New York or New Jersey who didn't know the legendary Yankee. Devin and Jason McCourty were no exceptions to this, so when the brothers received the Service Award at the Yogi…
Ryan Dunleavy | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Before Yankees legends gathered Sunday for Derek Jeter Day at Yankee Stadium, they were together Friday in honor of another another all-time great. The first Yogi Berra Awards Dinner was held at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. Ron Guidry and Willie Randolph -- teammates on the 1977 World Series champions,…
On what would have been the 92nd birthday of Yankee legend Yogi Berra, the namesake’s Museum, the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center, held their inaugural awards dinner and ceremony at the world-famous Plaza Hotel. With guests in their most dapper attire and NFL legend Boomer Esiason and Actor Robert Wuhl co-hosting the event, the…
The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center at Montclair State University is remembering the legendary baseball player and longtime Montclair resident on what would have been his 92nd birthday on Friday. The museum will donate a selection of Yogi Berra Museum baby hats along with free museum memberships for the families of all children born Friday. "Yogi's entire life…
New York Daily News by Mike Lupica April 23, 2017 They love the past at Yankee Stadium, they sell the past, they celebrate the past, they market the past. The Yankees are, by any measure, the capital of the past. Next to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, there might not be a…
On May 12, the Museum is saluting a remarkable group of individuals who embody the qualities that made Yogi an American treasure: respect, sportsmanship, perseverance and excellence, at the Museum’s inaugural awards dinner. Yogi Berra Museum Humanitarian Award Recipients: the McMullen Family Foundation, founding Yogi Berra Museum benefactors Yogi Berra Museum Teammate Award Recipient:…
We are thrilled to celebrate Yogi Berra's selection for the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom. This posthumous honor to our namesake is a fitting tribute to a noble and humble life well lived. We join with all of his fans and friends in congratulating his family, and in thanking President Obama for this award.…