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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

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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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Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
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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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We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
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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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I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.
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A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
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Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
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The Mets are gonna be amazing.
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I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.
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Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
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Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.
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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
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I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.
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I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.
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They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
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Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'
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