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Charles Dillon Stengel was born on July 30, 1890, in Kansas City, Missouri.His ancestry included German and Irish; his parents—Louis Stengel and Jennie (Jordan) Stengel—were from the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa, and had moved to Kansas City soon after their 1886 wedding so Louis could take an insurance job.
Casey Stengel describes in his autobiography how his original nickname "K.C." (for his hometown, Kansas City, Missouri) evolved into "Casey". It was influenced not just by the name of the poem, which was widely popular in the 1910s, but also because he tended to strike out frequently in his early career so fans and writers started calling him ...
Yankees manager Casey Stengel had famously dismissed Rizzuto during that Brooklyn Dodgers tryout in 1935 when Stengel was managing that team, advising him to "go get a shoeshine box." But Stengel ended up managing Rizzuto during five consecutive championship seasons, and would later say, "He is the greatest shortstop I have ever seen in my ...
[1] Casey Stengel once described Berg as "the strangest man ever to play baseball." [ 2 ] Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School , spoke several languages, and regularly read ten newspapers a day.
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? is a 1963 book by journalist Jimmy Breslin, about the 1962 New York Mets. [1] [2] The book chronicles the first season of the Mets, an expansion team that lost 120 games, which was a modern MLB record until 2024, when it was broken by the Chicago White Sox with 121 (though the White Sox would avoid having a worst winning percentage by comparison to that same ...
To test your movie trivia skills, we've gathered the very best movie quotes from all your favorite films, including classics like "Jaws," "Casablanca," "Star Wars," "Jerry Maguire," "The Godfather ...
Famous Christmas movie quotes “Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.” — Fred Gailey, "Miracle on 34th Street" “Tell her that you love her. You’ve got nothing ...