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...Gentlemen," Casey Stengel once said to his hapless Mets during a particularly poor spring training performance, "this is a baseball...
...Casey Stengel, Willie McCovey, Mack Jones...
Cooperstown, N.Y. From the start Stengel had the gift that Merlin enjoyed in The Once and Future King: he began decrepit and grew younger. The man who was too stiff to play at 35 was loose enough to manage in the majors and minors, learning, listening, coining the tortured syntax that would soon be labeled Stengelese. He perpetually refused to recognize players by name, only as "my big guy" or "that fella on first"; he told nonstop, outrageous stories and then claimed, "You could look...
...label adhered to the victim, not the driver. Before the 1949 season, the Yankees summoned Failure Stengel from the minors. At the time, the slipping team seemed to need a smokescreen of lunacy; no one took Casey seriously-but Casey...
Died. Baseball's Casey Stengel, 85, garrulous sage and part-time genius (see SPORT...