Word: stengel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Christian Buddenbrook. The brother of Thomas. At the age of seven a skillful mimic of Marcellus Stengel, his schoolmaster, he is pronounced "witty and brilliant" by Jean Jacques Hoffstede, the poet. He continues a skillful mimic to the end. But beyond that he accomplishes nothing?except to spend Buddenbrook money and to irritate the steadier Thomas...
...first major trade of the winter baseball season was announced. Dave Bancroft, captain and shortstop of the New York Giants, and " Casey " Stengel, who won two World's Series games for the Giants last month, were traded by Manager McGraw to Boston, together with Fielder Cunningham, for the Veteran pitcher Oeschger and the hard-hitting fielder, Billy Southworth. Bancroft will be Boston's new manager...
...famed did the poem become that any ballplayer who takes a lusty swing at the ball is known as " Casey." In the recent World's Series, some attention was drawn to " Casey" Stengel of the New York Giants, who hit home-runs on two critical occasions. But not every baseball fanatic knows that this " Casey " derived his nickname-not from his likeness to the " original Casey "-but from the fact that he is a native of Kansas City...
...Stengel's running Heywood Broun (critic) said: "Stengel proceeds furiously in all directions at the same time...
Third Game. Pitchers Nehf (Giants) and Jones (Yankees) dueled. Fielder Stengel waited until the seventh inning before interpolating his second crucial homerun for the Giants. As he trotted around the bases, Stengel wiggled his fingers at Pitcher Jones. Score: Giants 1, Yankees...