Word: casey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amazed--and in so saying I believe I am speaking for baseball fans, sports lovers, scholars, humanists, and freethinkers everywhere--by the ignominious treatment suffered by Charles Dillon (Casey) Stengel at the hands of his employers, the New York Yankees...
...hardly necessary to chronicle Casey's twelve years as Yankee manager, years in which he guided the New Yorkers to ten pennants and seven world series championships. The sagacity and boldness of his diamond judgments have been unanimously lauded by players, managers, and fans; and his creation of "Stengelese" has endeared him to reporters and semanticists...
Perhaps Cleveland Amory '39 has best summed up the feelings of all of us who admire Casey and deplore the Yankees' treatment of him, when he declared in Wednesday's New York Times, "I think that the Yankee bosses are for the birds. I think they're about all the American public can take. I was not surprised; isn't it the way they've behaved for ten years? You can take the whole bunch--Topping, Webb, and Weiss--and dump them in the East River." James S. Gordon...
...fine double-play combination of Second Baseman Bill Mazeroski and Shortstop Dick Groat, who claims that his broken left wrist has mended. In the outfield, the Yankees' weak link is Leftfielder Hector Lopez, who not only has a poor arm but stirs prayer in the breast of Manager Casey Stengel every time he wanders after a fly ball. Behind the plate, both the Yankees' Yogi Berra and Elston Howard have arms strong enough to discourage any base-stealing ambitions of the generally fleeter Pirates...
Streaking into their tenth Series under Ole Casey, the Yanks swept their last 15 games to take the American League flag by eight games over the late-dying Baltimore Orioles...