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Word: casey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guess the best guy I got is Berra who catches every day and then Mantle." said Casey in pure Stengelese, as he stole a quick look backward over the season. "Skowron maybe, but Skowron played a month only and then he got hurt so he can't count. Rest of our infield is pretty good; hard to pick out the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Fella | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...That fella on first, he gives me the big pinch-hit with 16 home runs in his first 32 hits [of his three first basemen. Casey is now talking about Ed Robinson]. So they say he won't be an outfielder [now, Joe Collins], but I'm not afraid to stick him in the outfield in the '53 series, and phew! What do they say in Brooklyn about me using a first baseman in the outfield? But he does me a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Fella | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...something for that other fella in right [Hank Bauer]. I even used him as a catcher and I gamble and I lose [here Casey remembers a game with the White Sox when Berra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Fella | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...This Yankee team hasn't been my idea of a solid ball club so I had to play the percentages." A Matter of Time. Playing the percentages, of course, can be a pastime for men without imagination, who get all their answers by adding a column of figures. Casey gets results by using some weird arithmetic of his own, by grappling with private statistics in a man ner that barely makes sense to ordinary mortals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Fella | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...awkward, left-handed student in a Kansas City dental college, Charles Dillon Stengel put in three grinding years and then discovered that dental-equipment colleges of those days catered to right-handed drill-pushers. Casey figured it would cost him $150 for special gear, played ,the percentages and quit dentistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Fella | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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