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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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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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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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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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The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'
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I couldn't have done it without my players.
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If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.
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Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.
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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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Don't cut your nose off yourself.
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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
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He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.
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If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.
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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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Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.
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