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While Moose may have become a star in New York with the Yankees, he was a Chicagoan through and through. I certainly will miss his priceless stories about Casey Stengel, Roger Maris, Hank Bauer and of course, his good friend, Mickey Mantle. ... My guess is that right now Mickey, Roger, Hank and Moose are enjoying a good laugh together.
I liked the Mets because of Casey Stengel and all those fellas over thereMore quotes »
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Bats: SNY's 'Yearbook' Series Set to Revisit 1962 Mets
baseball fans in New York will again be able to see stars like Willie Mays. And, of course, there is the irrepressible Casey Stengel, whose vivid, rambling and amusing monologues were the team’s signature. Each phrase Stengel utters makes perfect sense. Strung from The New York Times Read more »
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Jerry Green: To baseball fans, statistical analyses can’t obscure true magic of the game
the athletes playing them, and on W’s and L’s and HRs — and no runs, no hits and no errors and no runners left on base. As Casey Stengel — who once managed successfully without the benefit of Sabermetrics but with the aid of Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Whitey from Baseball Think Factory Read more »
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Mantle Sustained Yankees’ Other Famous Knee Injury
injury may have robbed his magnificent career only of one final flourish. Mantle was a 19-year-old rookie in 1951. Manager Casey Stengel had sent him down that summer to the club’s top farm team, Kansas City, because he was striking out too much, and he stayed from The New York Times Read more »
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A Champion in Life and Sports
his 14 major league career seasons. Yankee teammate and NPASHF inductee (1982), Toney Kubek, spoke fondly of Skowron, “Casey Stengel had us room together on the road. Stengel wanted me with a winner, with a mentor who was a consummate professional and knew from Sports Page Magazine Read more »
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Friends, former teammates remember Skowron
-- When former Yankee Tony Kubek began his first full Major League season with New York in 1957, legendary manager Casey Stengel put the youngster in the same room as Moose Skowron when the team was on the road. Kubek first thought the pairing was because from MLB.com Read more »
