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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
Mets
Fast
Baseball
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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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You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'
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A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
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We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
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The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
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We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
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What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?
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Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
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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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He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.
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We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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