
Casey Stengel
Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder and manager, best known as the manager of the championship New York Yankees of the 1950s and later, the expansion New York Mets. Nicknamed "the Ol' Perfessor", he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Kansas City
- Educated at
- Metropolitan Community CollegeCentral High School
- Awards
- 🏆 No. 1 Award of the National Cartoonists Society
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Trending topics shown first"We had a lot of fun with Casey all through the Series. There never was anything abusive about him. We rode him just to hear his clownish comebacks. I know I kidded him plenty. And when he won the the …"
"I've been talking only of some of the things Wagner did in the field. But he was a terror with that bat. The only other right-handed batter I could compare him with was Rogers Hornsby. Wagner could hi…"
"Oh yes, THAT Robason. Well, I seen Mr. Paige and I seen Rogan and I seen Mr. Josh Gibson, did you ever see that centerfield wall in Pittsburgh? Well, he hit one-out-of-three over it and I would have t…"
"This makes a man think. You look up and down the bench and you say to yourself, "Can't anybody here play this game?"
"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in."
"There ain't nothin' to it. You go into the fancy meeting room and you just sit there and never open your yap. As long as you don't say nuthin' they don't know whether you're smart or dumb. When the qu…"
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1890
Born
Birth1975
Died
Death
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