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Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

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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
English
Couldn
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Speak
Two
Yankees
Languages
French

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