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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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Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.
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Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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What do you think, I was born at 60?
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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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Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
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I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.
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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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We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
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Don't cut off your nose yourself.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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You could look it up.
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Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
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They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.
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You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.
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I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
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