Yogi Berra took a little piece of heaven with him

“Mr. Berra,” his first Yankee manager Casey Stengel once said, “is a very strange fellow of very remarkable abilities.” He died Tuesday at age 90.

By Andrew Pridgen

I don’t believe in heaven. Not the kind they try to sell you on TV, anyway. There is no life in the clouds, no harps to greet you, no 24-hour Angel food cake buffet garnished with a bacteria-free chocolate fountain. Saint Peter isn’t at check-in waiting to take your bag and Elvis won’t be noshing on a PBJ & banana with an empty seat in his booth brushed off for you.

But I’m OK with that.

I can’t speak for the man, and lord only knows no man spoke better than he, but I have a good idea Yogi Berra didn’t believe in that heaven either.

Instead, he believed in the one he saw right here on earth. It’s a perfect little…