Among the personalities the book talks about in depth are Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe Louis, Primo Carnera, Tony Canzoneri, Sugar Ray Robinson, Casey Stengel, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Stillman, Jacob Ruppert and more.

In the spring of 1953, Stengel moved Reynolds to the bullpen because he felt Reynolds would be more valuable there.

Some of Ford's totals were depressed by Yankees manager Casey Stengel who viewed Ford as his top pitching asset, and often reserved his ace left-hander for more formidable opponents such as the Tigers, Indians and White Sox.

Manager Gil Hodges employed a skillful platoon system not unlike the Yankees of the Casey Stengel era, in which Ron Swoboda and Art Shamsky became a switch-hitting right fielder who hit 23 home runs and drove in 100 runs, and Ed Kranepool and Donn Clendenon added up to a switch-hitting first baseman who hit 23 more homers and knocked in another 95 runs.

Casey Stengel rotated his pitchers all year with seven having at least 12 starts, but none working more than 35 games.

Ralph Houk, successor to Casey Stengel at the Yankee helm, plans to bring the entire New York squad here from St. Petersburg, including Joe Dimaggio and large crowds are anticipated for both weekend games.

Stengel inherited DiMaggio, Rizzuto, but he brought up Mantle from Class C to the majors, from Joplin to New York.

* Casey Stengel – inducted as manager, played for Giants from 1921 to 1923.

1915. Stengel was an outfielder on several teams in the National League beginning on September 17, 1912: the Brooklyn Dodgers from-17 ; the Pittsburgh Pirates in and ; the Philadelphia Phillies in and part of ; the New York Giants from 1921 to ; and the Boston Braves in and.

Bianca Castafiore is portrayed by Kim Stengel in the motion-capture film The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, which merges plots from several books.

As a member of the New York Yankees from through, Larsen was used by manager Casey Stengel as a backup starter and occasional reliever.

Former teammate Casey Stengel hired Kelly to coach the Boston Braves from 1938 to 1943.

After only 26 games and a. 264 batting average on a Casey Stengel-led team known as the Daffy Dodgers for their often inept play ( Stengel was fired at season ’ s end ), the onetime Boy Wonder turned Silver Fox at the age of 30 for his prematurely graying hair abruptly retired from baseball following a collision with infielder Jimmy Jordan while going for a routine pop fly.

The Yankees, led by the effusive Casey Stengel, recovered from the retirement of Joe DiMaggio, and the loss of Bobby Brown, Joe Coleman and Tom Morgan to the service.

Martin sat on the bench for most of the season ’ s first two months and took over second base duties when Casey Stengel moved Gil McDougal from second to third base to replace military bound Bobby Brown.

That marriage produced a daughter Jennie, who married Louis Stengel from across the river in Rock Island, IL.

" Casey Stengel once joked that he could bunt a home run down the first base line, which was only 42 feet from the stands.

The museum boasts several displays including autographed memorabilia, original scouting reports on players such as Daryl Strawberry, and handwritten notes from the team's first manager Casey Stengel.

Casey Stengel made the following comment in later life, evidently still feeling stung from having been traded by the New York Giants to the Boston Braves in the 1923-1924 off-season, despite having hit 2 game-winning home runs in the World Series: " It's lucky I didn't hit 3 home runs in three games, or McGraw would have traded me to the 3-I League!

He is best known as the successor of Casey Stengel as manager of the New York Yankees from 1961 – 63, when his teams won three consecutive American League pennants and the 1961 and 1962 World Series championships.

In 1936, the year he graduated from Tilden, Gordon's high school coach arranged for Gordon to work out for Casey Stengel, then manager of the Dodgers.

Joseph C. Beauprez and Marie Stengel, his parents, raised both Hereford and dairy cattle on the farm.

Weiss and Stengel would both return with the New York Mets.

The first manager to win pennants with both National and American League teams, he won nine league titles overall and seven World Series championships – a record tied only by Casey Stengel.

Stengel later said that it was the worst managing mistake he had ever made: I said " no guts " to a kid who went on to become a war hero and one of the greatest lefthanded pitchers you ever saw.

This caused Yankee manager, Casey Stengel to say, " Well, when they finally get me a nigger, I get the only one who can't run.

During the 1949 season, as Lemon was batting. 295 and 11 of his 18 hits were for extra bases, including six home runs, Yankees manager Casey Stengel said, " Well, I see where the Indians have nine hitters in the lineup instead of eight.

Casey Stengel said, " I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

Stengel explained to reporters, " If Lary is going to beat us anyway, why should I waste my best pitcher?

Nobody's mentioned it, but when ol' Casey Stengel takes over as boss of the New York Mets, he'll be the only baseballight ever to wear the uniform of all New York area clubs, past and present: Yankees, Dodgers, Giants, and now the Mets.

Stengel liked what he saw, but soon after the Dodgers fired Stengel.

Bill Mazeroski, the World Series hero of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Casey Stengel, the former manager of the Yankees.

Stengel will receive the Ben Epstein Good Guy Award.

Stengel probably preached too much in the early days when the kid wanted to pop his bubble gum and sow his oats.

On page 11 of his autobiography Casey at the Bat: The Story of My Life in Baseball ( Random House, 1962 ), Casey Stengel describes how his nickname of " K. C.

That same year, while giving an interview to US journalist Richard Stengel, de Klerk was asked whether South Africa had turned out the way he envisioned it back in 1990.

* 1890 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1975 )

The State Secretary of the Treasury, Hermann von Stengel, resigned because he could see no way to resolve the budget deficit.

Names such as Christy Mathewson, Iron Man Joe McGinnity, Bill Terry, Jim Thorpe, Mel Ott, Casey Stengel, and Red Ames are just a sample of the many players who honed their skills under McGraw.

This incarnation of the Mud Hens usually resided deep in the second division of the circuit, winning the AA pennant only once, in 1927 when the manager was Casey Stengel.

** Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball.

Future Yankee manager Casey Stengel hit the first post-season homerun in stadium history while playing with the opposing New York Giants.

In a letter of 1541 the Nuremberg maker Georg Stengel ‘ genannt Neuschel ’ referred to ‘ welsche krumme Zincken ’ ( see Eitner, 1877 ), as if the curved form were considered French or Italian in origin.

After an impressive spring training, Yankees manager Casey Stengel decided to promote Mantle to the majors as a right fielder instead of sending him to the minors.

In 1908 a postcard produced by Stengel & Co Ltd of London referred to it as Burr Island.

Charles Dillon " Casey " Stengel (; July 30, 1890 – September 29, 1975 ), nicknamed " The Old Perfessor ", was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and manager.

Stengel was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and originally nicknamed " Dutch ", a common nickname at that time for Americans of German ancestry.

Stengel was athletically inclined and played various sports in grade school and high school, including baseball, football and basketball.

Stengel coached the Ole Miss baseball team to a 13-9 record.

Stengel wearing sunglasses while playing outfield for the Dodgers, ca.