SIGNED BY YOGI BERRA AND RON GUIDRY, FIRST EDITION OF DRIVING MR. YOGI

(BERRA, Yogi, GUIDRY, Ron) ARATON, Harvey. Driving Mr. Yogi. Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift. Boston: Houston Mifflin, 2012. Octavo, original navy paper boards, original dust jacket. $550.

First edition of award-winning sportswriter Araton’s tribute to baseball and the close friendship between two of its greatest players, signed by Yogi Berra and Ron Guidry on the half title.

For over a decade Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry and Hall of Famer Yogi Berra would reunite at spring training in Tampa to watch the young players and trade stories about their own colorful careers. To Tim McCarver, "Spending time with Yogi Berra is a unique pleasure, as Ron Guidry, a special guy himself, can attest. Now thanks to Harvey Araton's delightful book you, too, can get to know one of the world's great treasures and revel in a remarkable relationship." In addition to covering sports for the New York Times for three decades, award-winning author Araton was nominated by the Times for a Pulitzer Prize in 1994. With eight pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations.

A fine copy.