At a charity event at a Staten Island golf course years ago, a reporter engaged Yogi Berra in a conversation about his Yankees, who had just lost a mid-summer series to the then-cellar-dwelling Kansas City Royals.
He was trying to note how the Yankees were able to beat teams with good records but didn't fare well against others with poor records. And then it happened:
"The lousy teams are good this year," Berra said in a true Yogi-ism.
With the passing of the Yankees legend at age 90, which was announced Wednesday morning, certainly his astonishing baseball career will be remembered.