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
yankees fields world
You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.
two fields legs
He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.
baseball fields asks
All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
You got to get 27 outs to win.
drop figured
We was going to get you a cake, but we figured you'd drop it.
accidents boys came family gave happy injuries life
But the only things that interrupted our happy family life came out there on the field, injuries and accidents and sickness, as the boys gave it all they had.
batting dangerous hitter walks
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
airplane walk weekends
Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
american-athlete happen three
Now there's three things that can happen in a ballgame: you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.
johnny matter nobody talk
Johnny Sain doesn't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
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Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
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I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.
chew late stay
Look at him. He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't chew and he doesn't stay out late - and he still can't hit.
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It ain't the water cooler that's getting you out.