biography
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Stengel, Casey
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popular name of Charles Dillon Stengel
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| male
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| (1891–1975)
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| biography:
| Baseball player and manager, born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. One of baseball's authentic ‘characters’ and a manager of eccentric genius, he abandoned dental school and began his distinguished six-decade career in Kankakee, IL in 1910. In 1912–25 he played outfield in the major leagues (1925–31 in the minors) compiling career averages of ·964 for fielding and ·284 for batting. Coaching and managing after 1932, as manager of the Yankees (1948–60) he won ten pennants and seven World Series championships, and in the five seasons during 1949–53 he won five consecutive pennants and series. He managed the New York Mets (1962–5) and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (1966). Known for his encyclopedic knowledge of players and for making strategic choices ‘against’ the averages, his famous quotable malapropisms and Stengelese attained legendary proportions in the 1958 Senate subcommittee hearings examining baseball's trust-exempt status. |
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