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About Casey
"He’s one of the smartest men in baseball, in business, in anything he’d try."
-- Edna Stengel, Casey’s wife
"He could fool you. When Casey wanted to make sense he could. But he usually preferred to make you laugh."
-- Yogi Berra
"I don't think anybody could have managed our club like Casey did. He made what some people call stupid moves, but about eight or nine out of ten of them worked."
-- Don Larsen
"If Casey Stengel really is dead, which, as he once said, most people his age really are, I’d like to bet his liver still is quivering. His personal filter was so marvelous that he gave us younger guys an inferiority complex as well as a hangover."
-- Bob Broeg (“Baseball’s Greatest Quotations” By:
Paul Dickson, pg.62)
"One time in spring training, we had the hit-and-run on, and Carl Erskine threw me a curve and I stuck it out into a double play. I came back to the bench and Casey said, ‘Next time, tra-la-la.’ I didn’t know what tra-la-la meant, but next time up, I hit a line drive, right into a double play. When I sat down, Casey came over and said, ‘Like I told you, tra-la-la."
-- Whitey Herzog (“Baseball’s Greatest Quotations” By: Paul Dickson, pg.182)
"Casey Stengel just can’t keep from being Casey Stengel."
-- Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (“Baseball’s Greatest Quotations” By:
Paul Dickson, pg.235)
"He can talk all day and all night, on any kind of track wet or dry."
-- John Lardner (“Baseball’s Greatest Quotations” By:
Paul Dickson, pg.237)
"I never saw a man who juggled his lineup so much and who played so many hunches so successfully."
-- Connie Mack (“Baseball’s Greatest Quotations” By:
Paul Dickson, pg.260)
"Well, God is getting an earful today. I hope he understands the infield fly rule, the hit and run, how to pitch to Hornsby with men on, when it would do you some good to bunt and what happened in the 1913 World Series. He will get an illustrated lecture on the hook slide, the best place to play Babe Ruth, when to order the infield in and how to steal on left handers.
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At the end of all this, the narrator will doff his cap and a sparrow will fly out. They finally slipped and called a third strike past Casey Stengel. He can’t argue the call. The game is over. Dusk is settling on the bleachers, the lights are turned on in the press box where ‘my writers’ are putting ‘30’ to the final bits of Stengelese they will ever type.”
-- Jim Murray on the death of Casey Stengel (“Baseball’s Greatest Quotations” By: Paul Dickson, pg.300)
"This is the way old Casey Stengel ran, running his home
run home when two were out in the ninth inning and the score was tied and the
ball was bounding inside the Yankee yard.
“This is the way—
“His mouth wide open.
“His warped old legs bending beneath him at every stride.
“His arms flying back and forth like those of a man swimming with a crawl stroke.
“His flanks heaving, his breath whistling, his hear far back…
“The 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 (“Baseball’s Greatest Quotations” By: Paul Dickson, pg.375)
“Good hands, good power, runs exceptionally well, nice glove, left-handed line drive hitter. Good throwing arm. May be too damn aggressive, bad temper.”
-- Larry Sutton in Casey’s scouting report in 1911. (“Baseball’s Greatest Quotations” By: Paul Dickson, pg.431) |
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