cover image What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

Yogi Berra. Simon & Schuster, $18.95 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-3768-0

Offering advice that does and doesn't make sense, baseball-great-turned-author Yogi Berra along with coauthor Dave Kaplan has penned a new tome, What Time Is It? You Mean Now? Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All. For Berra, it's apparently not over yet; he appears to have plenty of knowledge to share on subjects as diverse as the importance of attitude in life to the plusses of exercising regularly. Each short chapter begins with a quote, such as ""I Ain't in a Slump. I'm Just Not Hitting"" and ""It Gets Late Early Out There""; the strange quips are followed by brief anecdotes that explain to some degree just what Berra means. For example, his statement, ""It Was a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity, and I've Had a Couple of Those"" leads off the chapter on chances and breaks. According to Berra, opportunities are ""always going to be out there"" and may appear out of the blue. The short, sweet advice in this book will appeal to the young and old. Agent, David Vigliano.