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Casey Stengel
American baseball player and manager (1890–1975)
Baseball player
| Casey Stengel | |
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Stengel in 1957 | |
| Right fielder / Manager | |
| Born:(1890-07-30)July 30, 1890 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. | |
| Died: September 29, 1975(1975-09-29) (aged 85) Glendale, California, U.S. | |
| September 17, 1912, for the Brooklyn Dodgers | |
| May 19, 1925, for the Boston Braves | |
| Batting average | .284 |
| Home runs | 60 |
| Runs batted in | 535 |
| Managerial record | 1,905–1,842 |
| Winning % | .508 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| Managerial record at Baseball Reference | |
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| Induction | 1966 |
| Election method | Veterans Committee |
Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (; July 30, 1890 – September 29, 1975) was an American Major League Baseballright fielder and manager, best known as the manager of the championship New York Yankees of the 1950s and later, the expansion New York Mets. Nicknamed "the Ol' Perfessor", he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.
Stengel was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1890. In 1910, he began a professional baseball career that would span over half a century. After almost three seasons in the minor leagues, Stengel reached the
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Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character
Marty Appel. Doubleday, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-54047-6
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“Casey Stengel, by Marty Appel, is the ultimate biography.”
–New York Times
“Former Yankees P.R. director Marty Appel’s latest…is a fun and detailed read on the legendarily quirky former Yanks and Mets skipper.”
–New York Daily News
“Read this book! Never have we needed Casey more. Thanks, Marty Appel, for bringing him to life again in this superb book.”
–Jane Leavy, Bestselling author of The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood
“Marty Appel’s Casey Stengel is mightily impressive. The writing is smooth and the research, highlighted by the uncovering of unpublished manuscripts by Casey’s wife, Edna, and longtime Yankee, Frank Crosetti, indeed adds a dimension that has not appeared in other writings about Stengel. Appel has done a magnificent job in bringing Casey to life in print.”
–Ira Berkow, bestselling author and New York Times Sports Columnist
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