Casey Stengel
Casey Stengel
Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel, nicknamed "The Old Perfessor", was an American Major League Baseball right fielder and manager. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 July 1890
CityKansas City, MO
CountryUnited States of America
baseball four broke
I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.
baseball winning twenties
You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
baseball airplane boys
Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
baseball years one-day
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.
baseball player done
I couldn't have done it without my players.
baseball kids games
They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.
funny life sports
There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
new-york team poverty
He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).
sports winning two
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
enough good-enough shoulders
My health is good enough about the shoulders.
pitcher
You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
wonderful used many-friends
It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
sports mistake clubs
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.
sports thinking yankees
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?