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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.

Casey Stengel

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Casey Stengel
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: July 30
Died: 1975
Died: September 29
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Kansas City
Missouri
Charles Dillon Casey Stengel
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We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
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Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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The Mets has come along slow, but fast!
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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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If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.
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Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
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Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
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We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.
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