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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

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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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Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.
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Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
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Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
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Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
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You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.
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Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
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What do you think, I was born at 60?
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.
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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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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
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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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