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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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Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
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Even my players aren't players.
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The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
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We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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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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Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
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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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My health is good enough about the shoulders.
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Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.
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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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They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
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