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What do you think, I was born at 60?
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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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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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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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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Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.
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We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.
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I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
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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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Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
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Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
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Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'
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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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Even my players aren't players.
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You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
Casey Stengel
If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.
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I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.
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