Word: stengel
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...face that launched a thousand jokes was frozen grey and grim. The voice that frustrated generations of newsmen and an antitrust subcommittee of the U.S. Senate was curiously grammatical as Charles Dillon ("Casey") Stengel, 75, announced last week that he was retiring as manager of the New York Mets. "At the present time," explained Casey, leaning heavily on a cane, "I am not capable of walking out on the ballfield. If I can't run out there and take a pitcher out, I don't want to complete my service...
Ever since he broke in as a bandy legged minor-league outfielder 55 years ago, somebody or other has been suggesting that baseball could get along fine without Casey Stengel's services. During his playing days, in Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philadelphia and New York, he was variously known as "Billiard Ball Stengel" and "Casey the Clown" for 1) his hardheadedness in doing things his way, and 2) his penchant for practical jokes. There was the time, for instance, when he tipped his cap to the crowd, and out flew a sparrow. Such antics made it easy to forget...
...York Mets Manager Casey Stengel, in Manhattan, after an operation to repair his left hip, fractured when the Perfesser slipped while alighting from a taxi during the scheduled week-long celebration of his 75th birthday; former Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda, 65, in Tokyo, with aftereffects from the radiation treatment used last November to rid him of the nonmalignant throat tumor that forced him to resign the premiership; Barry Goldwater, 56, in Phoenix, after a four-hour cervical laminectomy to repair an old injury to vertebrae in his neck...
...When I leave this here ball club in the fall, I want to leave a young team behind me." That was New York Mets Manager Charles Dillon Stengel talking, at a New York city hall celebration of Casey Stengel Day, one week in advance of his 75th birthday. What he said sounded something like English. And it sounded something like retirement. Since New Yorkers follow every stumble of Casey's spectacularly miserable Mets, the banners in the afternoon papers bellowed STENGEL TO RETIRE. For a while, the Mets' front office turned into a shambles of confusion and denials...
...Finally, Stengel summoned Spahn for a talk in his office. Just about everyone in the club house heard the angry rumble as Spahn refused to step aside as a regular pitcher and join the bullpen staff. "I feel I can still pitch," he insisted. Perhaps so. But not with the Mets. Last week the Mets put Spahn up for sale. Price: $1. So far, he has not been bowled over with offers. By week's end, in fact, there had been none, and Spahn hurried off to try his hand at broadcasting baseball...