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...generations of Americans, Casey Stengel was an essential part of the national pastime-the canny, clownish manager of New York City's worst and best teams, the brand-new Mets and the old-gold Yankees. Hardly a man is now alive who remembers Casey at the bat. For the record, Stengel was a hitter who had a knack for connecting in the clutch. To use his own phrase, he treated the ball as if he hated it-and he sometimes fielded that...
Clown Prince. Casey started playing summer ball in Kansas City-K.C. was the source of his nickname-to support himself while attending dental college. But he was a southpaw, Casey explained later, and the equipment of the period was geared for righthanded drillers. Like such other leftist talents as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandy Koufax, Stengel adjusted. He signed on at $75 a month with the Kankakee, Ill., club and immediately became the clown prince of the bush leagues. Running to his position, the outfielder liked to practice sliding into home plate en route. "There was a lunatic asylum...
Later, when Casey was managing the Boston Braves to a nothing season, he was struck by a taxi and incapacitated...
...label adhered to the victim, not the driver. Before the 1949 season, the Yankees summoned Failure Stengel from the minors. At the time, the slipping team seemed to need a smokescreen of lunacy; no one took Casey seriously-but Casey...
Died. Baseball's Casey Stengel, 85, garrulous sage and part-time genius (see SPORT...