We do not expect wisdom on pressing moral issues from baseball immortal Yogi Berra. Yet, we should not sell him short.
The Hall of Fame Yankee catcher has supplied us with no end of inadvertent humor. Among his gems are the following:
“You should always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
“Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.”
“Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.”
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
Among these immortal one-liners, we find one whose application goes far beyond the world of sports: “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
The assertion has untapped wisdom and should be recalled and applied to the current debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide.
In the early days of Monday Night Football, color man Don Meredith would sing “Turn out the lights, the party’s over,” from the classic Willie Nelson song, when it appeared the victor of the contest was clearly settled.
In one instance, however, his chant was premature. The team that trailed made a dramatic comeback, proving Meredith wrong and vindicating Berra’s wisdom: the game is not over until it is over.
In another instance, the Boston Red Sox
