Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yankee management had timed things cagily. A week before, while everybody was watching the American League pennant playoff, they had fired popular Bucky Harris. Their complaint: Bucky hadn't been strict enough with playboys. Then, before the press could get around to objecting, the Yankees hired Casey, whom sportwriters all like...
Last week, when the New York Yankees asked Casey if he would like to be manager, he said he'd be right there...
...Casey might have a hard time doing better than Bucky (who won the World Series in his first year as Yankee manager, and finished a close third in his second). As to keeping his charges away from bars, Casey is no governess...
...Casey is reportedly one of the models for Ring Lardner's Alibi Ike characters, and when he got the job last week, Manhattan columnists all rushed to their typewriters to tell what a funny man he was. They obviously couldn't do him justice: his kind of deadpan, spun-out comedy was hard to describe. Grinning with happy memories, the columnists tried to tell how funny it was the time Casey purposely disappeared into a manhole in centerfield, or the time Casey tipped his cap to an umpire, and out flew a sparrow...
Cutup that he was, Casey never allowed practical joking to interfere with business. As manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Bees, he got all the mileage there was to get out of poor material...