Word: casey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Emil Fuchs of the Braves made Casey manager and president of his Worcester "farm" team. As president, Casey promptly traded himself to the Toledo Mudhens in a better league, then resigned as president of the Worcester club...
...Before the 1934 season started Giant Manager Bill Terry sarcastically inquired whether Brooklyn was still a member of the National League. He lived to regret it. The Brooklyn club closed the season in sixth place, but it was a great triumph for Casey because his team beat the Giants in the two crucial games that kept them from winning the league pennant...
...Cubs, who for a brief period last summer, managed the Cubs while they were topping the National League. But neither of them was available. So President Quinn picked up his telephone and asked the operator to get him Mr. C. D. Stengel at his oil field in Omaha. Tex. "Casey," President Quinn called into the instrument, "want to come with us next year...
...Casey's voice piped into the receiver: "Certainly, I'd be delighted...
Since the Bees' former manager, Bill McKechnie, has been hired by the Cincinnati Reds for next year and" Oscar Vitt, manager of the Newark Bears (International League), has been hired by the Cleveland Indians, after Casey Stengel's "delighted," only one major-league managerial job remained open: with the St. Louis Browns. Meanwhile, Infielder Tony Lazzeri, who was released by the New York Yankees to seek a manager's berth, last week settled down not as manager but as coach of the Chicago Cubs...