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Some folks say his worst accident was in 1943 when a taxi knocked him down and broke his leg. Others insist that it was the day in 1962 when he was made manager of the New York Mets. Now, baseball's noblest showman Casey Stengel, 74, has a fractured right wrist. It cracked when he fell on a concrete ramp just before his Mets played an exhibition game against the cadets at West Point. While the Mets were winning, 8-0, surgeons cased Case in plaster and a green sling. Then he returned home, waved his still-solid southpaw...
...Former Yankee Manager Yogi Berra: a $70,000, two-year contract as coach with the National League's New York Mets. Pocketing $25,000 in severance pay from his former employers, Berra became the third big Yankee name (with ex-Manager Casey Stengel, ex-General Manager George Weiss) to join the Mets-a clear indication that the Yankees are quickly becoming the Mets' favorite farm team...
...half game into first place. All they had to do to sew up the pennant was sweep a three-game series with the lowly Mets. who had won only 51 games all season. "Glad you're coming back," cracked Cardinal Manager Johnny Keane to Mets Manager Casey Stengel. "We need you." Like a hole in the head. The first time they tried to defend their league lead, the Cardinals committed three errors, and even the presence of an ally in the enemy infield was not enough to help. In the eighth inning, St. Louis loaded up the bases when...
Unfortunately, the book contains far too much social relations jargon and too many statistics to make pleasant light reading. In fact, if Casey Stengel's memoirs were to appear written in the plodding, colorless prose of an introductory mathematics textbook, it would still be difficult to find a book as unrevealing of the author's character as A Profile. Virtually all of Pettigrew's exuberance, humor, and fondness for improbable metaphor has been carefully excluded. Yet if scholarship has supplanted lively writing, the scholarship is always topnotch and usually provocative...
...murderous: "When Hank came down that base path," shudders ex-Boston Shortstop Johnny Pesky, "the whole earth trembled." His will to win was awesome. "It's no fun playing if you don't make somebody else unhappy," he once said. "I do everything hard." Even Manager Casey Stengel tipped his cap: "That fella Bauer, he had qualities of which there were four. He'd report on time. He was there for practice, and he would fight the whole season-with all that was in his body...