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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

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Casey Stengel
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: July 30
Died: 1975
Died: September 29
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Kansas City
Missouri
Charles Dillon Casey Stengel
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Baseball
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Pitching
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They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
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Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
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You could look it up.
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The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
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Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
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If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.
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They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
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I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
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