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They say it can't be done, but sometimes that 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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You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
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Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'
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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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Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
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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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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 love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.
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Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
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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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I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
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Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
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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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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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