I was hired to give an exhibition at Corner Billiards in NYC at a publicity party for a new soft drink. After the exhibition, a gentleman asked me if I would mind shooting pool with two men connected to the soft drink.
I said yes of course, and a minute later I was being introduced to Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford. We shot pool for the next hour and had a blast. Yogi could really play, and he told me he spent a lot of his youth in poolrooms. Whitey was terrible, and Yogi relentlessly teased him about it.
He said to Whitey, "You're so uncoordinated! How did you ever play baseball?"
