Word: stengel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PETER STENGEL...
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...
After three decades and more of labors by Rabbit Maranville, Casey Stengel, and the immortal Bill Posedel, the Boston Braves are about to bring a pennant to Boston. Of course the Red Sox have won during that stretch-- and mind you there is nothing wrong with the Red Sox--but the wigwam is where the heart...
...Just incidentally, when is Dick Harlow going to start proving his touted greatness as a coach? . . . I am beginning to suspect, pretty darkly, that he is just another Stengel, which is to say that he is just another fellow who has a local job and, having one, becomes a stickout until he loses it." --October...
...Their new boss, Casey Stengel, won last week's playfulness poll; second was Jimmy Dykes of the Chicago White...