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Casey Stengel
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: July 30
Died: 1975
Died: September 29
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Charles Dillon Casey Stengel
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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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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
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They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
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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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Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.
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Don't cut off your nose yourself.
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The Mets has come along slow, but fast!
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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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That kid can hit balls over buildings.
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