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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

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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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He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.
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Don't cut off your nose yourself.
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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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Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
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We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.
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Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
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