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The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

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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
Baseball
Along
Come
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Mets
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Don't cut your nose off yourself.
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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.
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We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
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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 was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.
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The Mets are gonna be amazing.
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