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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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Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.
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I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.
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We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
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I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.
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A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
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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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All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
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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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Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.
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Don't cut off your nose yourself.
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The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
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What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?
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I couldn't have done it without my players.
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They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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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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You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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