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That kid can hit balls over buildings.

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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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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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Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.
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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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We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
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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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The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
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What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?
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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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Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.
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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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I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
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I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
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It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
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The Mets are gonna be amazing.
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They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
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Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
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Don't cut your nose off yourself.
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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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