Carmen Berra, Yogi’s companion for nearly 70 years, was one of the famous Yankees baseball wives who could be identified by their first names, like Eleanor (Gehrig), Merlyn (Mantle) and Cora (Rizzuto).

Carmen Berra, who died Friday at 85, met Yogi after the 1947 season at Biggie’s steakhouse in St. Louis. She was a 19-year-old waitress and a local beauty. He had just played in 83 games for the Yankees in what amounted to his rookie season in the majors.

“I was bashful, nervous, not good-looking,” Yogi wrote in one of his books. “I could hardly believe my luck that Carmen liked me as much as I liked her.”

He romanced her with love letters from the road. They wed in early 1949 at St. Ambrose Church in St. Louis. Joe Garagiola was the best man. They formed a married team for 65 years, a union that produced 3 sons, 11 grandchildren and 1 great-grandson. They recently moved from their Montclair, N.J., home to an assisted-living facility.