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Casey Stengel
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: July 30
Died: 1975
Died: September 29
Baseball Manager
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Kansas City
Missouri
Charles Dillon Casey Stengel
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The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
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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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Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
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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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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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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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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
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Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
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It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
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We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.
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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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The Mets are gonna be amazing.
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Don't cut off your nose yourself.
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