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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
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Kansas City
Missouri
Charles Dillon Casey Stengel
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I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.
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Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
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We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
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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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It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
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Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.
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He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.
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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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Even my players aren't players.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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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 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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Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.
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