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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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Cities
Traded
Kansas
Yankees
City

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Don't cut off your nose yourself.
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He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.
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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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You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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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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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If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.
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The Mets has come along slow, but fast!
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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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I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
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Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.
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What do you think, I was born at 60?
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Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
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