Déjà vu all never again: Yogi Berra, RIP

Yogi Berra accepts a light from Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto after Berra handed out cigars to celebrate the birth of his son in the Yankees clubhouse in New York on Sept. 25, 1951.Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra — one of the greatest Yankees ever — died of natural causes Tuesday evening at the age of 90.

Born in St. Louis, Berra became a one-of-a-kind quintessential New Yorker whose “Yogi-isms” — brain-twisting quasi-philosophical aphorisms — actually started to make sense once you thought about them too much.

But first and foremost, there was the ballplayer: With a record 10 World Series rings from the ’40s and ’50s — nearly 40 percent of all Yankee championships — he participated in nearly…