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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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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.
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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
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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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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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Even my players aren't players.
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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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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
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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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Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
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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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They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
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A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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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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Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?
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