Word: stengel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words came slowly at first, then faster; and they ran together in a manner that was more than faintly suggestive of that new language created within the past decade by Casey Stengel. Shepard's discourse had much of the charm of Stengelese, and fortunately it was far less confusing. It seemed, somehow, as if all baseball coaches ought to talk that...
Another surprise was the way Cooney Weiland handled his second and third lines. The coach shuffled his personnel with greater abandon than Casey Stengel, having Les Duncan, Bob Anderson, Greg Downes, Crocker Snow and Dick Reilly at center at one time or another. The trio that was the most successful, however, was Duncan, Collins and Paul Kelley...
...slugging outfielder for the New York Giants who also managed the team during his last six seasons, spent recent summers broadcasting Detroit Tiger games; of injuries resulting from an auto crash; in New Orleans. Ott made Manager John McGraw's team when he was 16. Casey Stengel, then manager of the Toledo Mud Hens, asked for the boy, but irascible John McGraw snarled: "Neither you nor any other minor-league manager is going to ruin that kid. He stays with me." Stay he did-long enough to hit 511 home runs, score 1,859 runs, bat in another...
...Casey Stengel. Who else! FRANCIS J. MOYNIHAN Jamestown...
Yankee Manager Casey Stengel lost his composure ("I'm getting damned mad about this") and finally browbeat the Yankees into winning one. Don Larsen and Ryne Duren combined for a 4-0 shutout, but at that only four hits came from Yankee bats all day-three of them by the rejuvenated Bauer ("Being a good loser is the bunk"), who knocked in all four runs with his third series homer, two singles. He still managed to get picked off first once again...