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He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.

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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
Kids
Always
People
Assed
Gettin
Yankees
Smart
Away

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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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A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
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What do you think, I was born at 60?
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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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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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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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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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Even my players aren't players.
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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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