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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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Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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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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The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
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I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.
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They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.
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See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.
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Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.
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If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.
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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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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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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
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I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
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Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
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