Casey Stengel

Casey Stengel

Biography

Paul Dickson's book, "Baseball's Greatest Quotations," devotes 17 pages to Casey Stengel and his own particular brand of speaking, "Stengelese." The Ol' Perfessor wasn't half bad as a ballplayer - he hit .284 with 1,219 hits in a 14-year major league career with the Dodgers, Pirates, Giants and Braves - but made himself one of the game's unforgettable characters as a manager in New York... Read on

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