Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Dillon ("Casey") Stengel has a deeply lined, hawklike face that is hard to forget. He has wiry, bowed legs, a workaday wit, and an air of mock modesty. "I'm an apple-knocker," he likes to say, "and I'm against all city slickers." He was also quite a ballplayer in his day. Under the late great John J. McGraw of the Giants, he smashed a crucial home run in the 1923 World Series, and vigorously thumbed his nose at the Yankees all the way round the bases. The mantle of dignity is one article of clothing...
...Pinkley and his boss, Times Publisher Norman Chandler, preferred not to raid staffs of papers like the New York Daily News to get tabloid know-how for the jazzy paper they hoped to put out. Instead, they picked up local talent; for a city editor they got florid Ralph ("Casey") Shawhan, an ex-Hearstling who knew the town well but had turned to movie pressagentry five years...
...rest of the Cornell team has Harry Cassel and Jack Rogers at the ends, Dick Clark and Jim Casey as tackles, captain Joe Quinn and John Paul Jaso at guards, and John Pierik over the ball; with Dorset, Miller, and Fleischmann in the backfield will be Hillary Chollet, of basketball fame. Bob Dean and Paul Girolame will alternate with Dorset and Miller...
...Casey took over in 1931. Horween had built a terrifically strong squad in his last three years, so Casey could hardly help winning some games. As a matter of fact, he went into the Yale game undefeated. But even at that it was a bad season, because Harvard was sloppy and unspirited, and barely slipped by a lot of teams it should have slaughtered...
That brings us up to tomorrow, and I stand here before you to declare that Art Valpey's first season will not be anything like Horween's or Casey's or Harlow's. This statement rests solidly on an uninformed, sentimental hunch. Besides that, you don't often draw four of a kind...