Yogi Berra Museum — Attraction in Little Falls

Took my class to the Yogi Berra Museum for a STEM field trip. I was very impressed with the young staff and how engaging, enthusiastic and fanatical they were about Yogi. The staff interacted well with my class and clearly are experienced working with 4th graders. I love how you connected a pitchers stride to the power generation. The kids loved it.

While I have stepped away from baseball in recent years there was a time that it dominated my reading and free time. I was privileged enough to spend countless days and hours just talking baseball with Robert Creamer as a 10 year old boy- Not realizing that I was talking baseball with the founder and 40 year editor of Sports Illustrated (My Dad delivered milk to him)

I mention this because the 2 young men that gave the tour were very knowledgeable about Yogi and clearly had researched his life from many angles. I grow up in a household of Yogi Berra fans born in the 40s and there is not much I have not heard or read over the years. If there was ever a new Yogi book out I would buy it for my dad every Christmas and eventually read it myself. Regardless, I learned something everytime they stopped to highlight a photo, mitt or pocket watch. Very impressive! Their passion into transcends the tour and Brings Yogi back in our hearts.

There is something for every kid at this museum. Many of my students were not familiar with baseball but still had a blast. Thank you for the cool old timers day pin!

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My review is about Mr. Berra. When my father-in-law turned 80, I read that the White House will send a Burthday card. I view everything as a personal challenge and so I began my quest to see how many people/teams would send him Birthday Greetings. My father-in-law, a doctor, was the Yankee’s NUMBER ONE FAN. I wrote to the Yankee’s and they graciously sent one of thousands of prepared and stampled cards. We received the same sort of card from the Governor and Sentor at the time. It was Mr. Yogi Berra, who wrote a personal note to my father-in-law, which became one of his most prized and cherished possessions. There are leaders and then there are heros. Yogi Berra was a hero to my father-in-law, Dr. Ernest Scerbo, who is now deceased. I am not a fam of baseball, because of the game happens to bore me and the way so many players act more like children and spoiled brats. All should take lessons from some of the “old timers” like Yogi, who acted like heroes and kids would do as they did. They were people with ethics, morals and a sense of common desency and some innocence we have lost. I find this sad. Our kids grow up way too soon. Thank you Yogi for simply taking the time and writing a little note to an 80 year old man and making him a child on his 80th Birthday. Through you, we were able to give him a gift words could not express - what’s the commercial - priceless....

Very cool Yankee baseball memorabilia, but also a wonderful on ramp to introduce children to WW2! I learned a lot about Yogi and especially loved the love letters between him and his wife. Baseball was not what it is now. I felt the sense that Baseball was for the love of the game and definitely not money as they weren't paid enough to make it about money. The merits of what pro baseball players should be paid is not within the scope of e Google maps review, but this place leaves food for thought nonetheless. The view of hinchcliffe stadium was also cool, but you can not go outside onto the balcony that overlooks the stadium (or at least we were told it wasn't open to the public).

Parking was in the lot right across the street and this may come as a surprise for first time visitors so I will mention it - the museum is on the actual campus of Montclair...