Word: stengel
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Craig, 57, has had a lively life in baseball since leaving a North Carolina farm for Brooklyn in 1955 to pitch in the first big league game he ever saw. He was a 20-game loser (twice) for Casey Stengel's fledgling Mets. Recently he coached Sparky Anderson's pitchers to a World Series championship in Detroit and revolutionized that staff and others with his proliferating invention, the split-finger fastball. Late in a summer of 100 losses, the Giants summoned Craig from retirement in 1985. "I've known many kinds of fun," he remembered last week, "but nothing like...
...Casey Stengel to the New York Mets...
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ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Patricia Blake, Tom Callahan, William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Stephen Koepp, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, J. D. Reed, Thomas A. Sancton, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, Anastasia Toufexis, Claudia Wallis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Patricia Blake, Tom Callahan, John S. DeMott, William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Stephen Koepp, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, J. D. Reed, Thomas A. Sancton, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, Anastasia Toufexis, Claudia Wallis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...