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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
Traded
Kansas
Yankees
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Nobody
Cities

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Don't cut off your nose yourself.
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There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
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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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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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I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
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What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?
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We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
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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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Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
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Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.
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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
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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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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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You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.
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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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