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...Casey Stengel used to commit terrible atrocities against the English language, and he had lots of winning seasons. If George W. Bush becomes president, we may come to look forward to presidential press conferences in a sporting kind of way, hoping for another of those endearing malaprops or manglings. That thought should "resignate" with you. Let me sew you to your sheets. Whatever...
...doesn't escape Robert W. Creamer, who's had a few lunches at Gallagher's since 1956, when he covered the last Subway Series for a struggling young rag called SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. "I did that one and '55," says Creamer, biographer of both Babe and Casey (Ruth and Stengel, for the baseball illiterati). "Back then a Subway Series was of a piece--there were 13 of them in New York between 1921 and '56. The Yankees were playing the Giants, or then later they were playing the Dodgers. It was a rivalry renewed, and players developed histories within the Subway...
...Stengel had switched to managing and changed into pinstripes. He won his first of five Subway Series as a skipper that year, when his Yankees beat the Dodgers four games to one, and his last in '56, when the Bombers beat the Bums 4-3. The Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles in 1958, but in 1962 Queens got the Mets. And who was the first manager of the Amazin's? Stengel, tying things up nicely...
...Richard Stengel is a senior editor at TIME
...Richard Stengel...