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...warped old legs, twisted and bent by many a year of baseball campaigning, just barely held out under Casey Stengel until he reached the plate running his home run home...
...Damon Runyon in the New York American, Oct. 11, 1923 This is the way old Casey Stengel ran his team home for his sixth pennant in seven years. This is the way Casey came down the stretch, running his team, the flag still hobbling like a loose ball among the leaders of the American League...
...drop-kicking a press photographer out of spring training; during the regular season, he raged at the umpires more than usual, erupted from the dugout in a uniform that looked like well-worn pajamas, and even got himself heaved out of a game-something of a record for Stengel as a Yankee manager...
...awkward, left-handed student in a Kansas City dental college, Charles Dillon Stengel put in three grinding years and then discovered that dental-equipment colleges of those days catered to right-handed drill-pushers. Casey figured it would cost him $150 for special gear, played ,the percentages and quit dentistry...
...lunatic asylum across from the centerfield fence," he remembers happily. "Them guys in the loony bin always cheered when they saw me slide. But my manager used to tap his forehead and point at the asylum and say, 'It's only a matter of time. Stengel...