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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
Casey Stengel
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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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Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.
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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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I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
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Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.
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Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.
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Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
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I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.
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I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.
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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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