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Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

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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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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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The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
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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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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
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Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
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The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Don't cut your nose off yourself.
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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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Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
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All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
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I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
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