 Thanks for coming back with us on Yankees batting practice today presented by Audi earlier this morning a new stamp honoring Yogi bearer was released by the US Postal Service. I chatted with Yogi's granddaughter Lindsey about the event. Lindsey what a day your family has been part of so many honors for the years through your grandfather's accomplishments and heroics and now a stamp bearing his likeness. How does that feel? How do you all feel about it? My family is so excited about this stamp. I think it's especially because of my dad who has been a stamp collector his entire life. He's one of those people and so I grew up with an appreciation of stamps and it's just such a piece of Americana a US Postage stamp and I mean sadly you have to have already passed away to be considered to be on a stamp but the fact that his whole lifetime achievements kind of made the post office think of him as emblematic of America to be put on a postage stamp is just really a great thing and it's a great way for us to kind of you know keep his legacy alive for a new generation of people who may not know who he is. I think that you've seen the photo of that that's on the stamp that the artwork that's on it and it's just this great smiling picture of my grandfather and even folks who don't know who he is as a baseball player I think they'll see this super smiley image of him on their mail and think who is this happy fellow bringing a little joy into my mailbox and then maybe they'll google to see who Yogi Berra was and they'll learn something about him and that is just a great way for us to just kind of continue to share him with the world. So true so fantastic so take us through it please from conception to realization. So I actually didn't have a whole lot to do with it from the beginning it was more my father and my uncles but about a year ago the post office reached out to my family and said that they had been thinking about putting my grandfather on a stamp since 2016 which was the year after he passed and they reached out kind of mid 2020 saying that they had decided to do that there's a whole bunch of approvals that it has to go through there's a board that that kind of assesses the ideas that they have for stamps and approves which ones they want to move forward with so when they decided to go forward with my grandfather they called my family for permission obviously to use his image and they kind of kept them included in the process as I understand that they went through about nine different variations of artwork there are artists at the post office uses to create the the images that appear on the stamps and I think the first few were pictures of my grandfather playing baseball from afar but there are a lot of Yankee fans at the post office I guess and they all said no Yogi was such a personality we need to see his face and get that personality across in whatever artwork we use for the postage stamp and that was how they settled on this the great image that we have now of him smiling you see the NY on his hat he's in his catcher's chest protector so you kind of get everything you know that he's a Yankee you know that he was a catcher the big smile you know he was a guy with a lot of effusive personality so it really does capture him well I love it how can people get the stamp so the stamp was officially released by the post office this morning and it will be available in every post office starting today or you can also order the stamps online at the US Postal Service website and they'll ship them right to you the stamp is a forever stamp how appropriate is that right because it's timeless just like your granddad that's pretty cool right I think it's amazing you know I want his legacy to live forever and the fact that the stamp actually says Yogi forever on it is pretty tremendous for us and I always say you know grandpa was an Italian immigrant the son of immigrants he volunteered to fight for his country in World War II because he thought it was his duty to to be there for his adopted country he went on to live this you know amazing life afterwards with everything he did in baseball and then away from baseball as well and I always say he's like a little microcosm of the American dream and I think that all fits so well in this little stamp and I just definitely warms my heart that Yogi forever is going to be in mailboxes all across the country and maybe across the world and finally before we let you go you knew your grandfather so so well what do you think he would think about a stamp in his likeness today I think that he would think it was a really cool thing because the stamp is such an iconic thing and it's such a cool honor to be on the stamp a lot of people ask me what I think he would say but yes I did know him very well and I knew him well enough to know that if you can't imitate him you shouldn't copy him so I will not try to give a Yogi-ism for the stamp but I know that he he would have been thrilled and it's just such a cool honor Lindsey we're thrilled to have had you today thank you so much for taking time out and congratulations to your whole family thank you so much everybody go to the post office get your stamps so great to catch up with Lindsey Yogi becomes the eighth Yankee celebrated with a forever stamp and these can be purchased wherever stamps are sold Barrett becomes the 31st player in baseball history to be honored with his own stamp