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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
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Kansas City
Missouri
Charles Dillon Casey Stengel
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Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
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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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All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
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Even my players aren't players.
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I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.
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Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
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