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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
Baseball
Building
Kids
Buildings
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Don't cut off your nose yourself.
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Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
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Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.
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A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
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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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All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
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We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
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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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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?
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The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
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We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
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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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You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
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You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.
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Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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