Word: casey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, a man who got to fame in the sere and yellow leaf, was naturally jubilant about winning the World Series, but, at 59, he was a little undecided about his future. After the last game in his team's clean sweep, Casey surprised sportwriters by saying, "I don't know whether I'm coming back next year ... it will depend upon my health." Last week Stengel got just what the doctor ordered: a two-year contract making him the highest-paid manager in baseball history. True to a modern baseball custom much favored...
These tactics, he added, defeated Daniel Casey of Pittsfield in this year's primaries when Casey sought re-nomination for State Representative...
Yankee Manager Casey Stengel came through with as much credit as anybody. Everything he tried seemed to work for him. When it was all over, crease-faced Casey, a good winner, reached out a paw to Eddie Sawyer, who had broken a path for himself to the Yankees' dressing room. "You got a good ball club there," Casey shouted. "You played good ball through the series. You did a great job as manager...
Freshmen: l.e., Van Kessler; l.t., Kimmel; l.g., Carey; c., Robinson; r.g., Casey; r.t., Flather; r.e., Maier; q.b., Simmons; l.h., Trucker; r.h., Boies; f.b., Langdon...
...York Yankees won their seventeenth American League pennant--and their second straight for Manager Casey Stengel--yesterday in the lobby of the Hotel Kenmore. While the Yanks were enjoying an off day in Boston, the Cleveland Indians eliminated the Detroit Tigers from the pennant race with a 12 to 2 victory at Briggs Field...