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If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
Casey Stengel
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Casey Stengel
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: July 30
Died: 1975
Died: September 29
Baseball Manager
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Kansas City
Missouri
Charles Dillon Casey Stengel
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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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