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Casey Stengel: Baseball's Old Professor

by David Cataneo

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Casey Stengel is considered by many to be the greatest manager in baseball history. He was certainly one of the most successful. He managed the fabled New York Yankees from 1949 to 1960 and compiled ten American League pennants and seven world championships during that time. He was also without question one of the game's all-time characters, best known for conversing in a mangled form of English that came to be known as Stengelese.
Beyond the comedy and the world championships, however, his baseball life spanned the ages, from the dead-ball era to Astro Turf. He began his big league career by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1912 and ended it by managing the hapless New York Mets in 1965. Between the first and last stop, Stengel was a World Series hero; a failed manager with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves; a washed-up, aging manager in the minors; and the wacky interloper who took over the stuffy, staid Yankees in 1949 and reformed them into a dynasty.
In Casey Stengel: Baseball's Old Professor, dozens of former players, friends, and associates recall the Stengel myth and the Stengel reality. They explore his managing style with great teams and with horrible teams; his pioneering, controversial techniques; his humor, his edginess, and his weaknesses; why some players hated him while others loved him; why some think he was a genius and others think he was merely the right man in the right place at the right time. What emerges is a fascinating ride through baseball history and a thoughtful look at the life of a man who was counted out, mocked, and underestimated--and yet he never gave up, finally finding success in his later years.


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Book details

Author
David Cataneo
Imprint
Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Formats
Paperback, Hardcover
Subjects
Biography & Autobiography › Sports
Sports & Recreation › Baseball › History
Topics
baseball biography · New York Yankees · baseball managers · World Series · Major League Baseball history · baseball legends
ISBN-13
9781581823271 (Paperback)9781684421343 (Hardcover)

About the author

DAVID CATANEO is the author of seven books, including six nonfiction works and one novel. His recent books include Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Old Professor, I Remember Joe DiMaggio and I Remember Ted Williams.

Tony C was a finalist for the 1997 Casey Award for best baseball book. Cataneo spent 22 years in Boston journalism at the Herald and Globe, serving as a baseball columnist and award-winning reporter for the Boston Herald.

When he’s not writing, Cataneo has taught as an adjunct professor of English and Journalism at the University of New Hampshire since 2009. His books, including Peanuts and Crackerjack and Hornsby Hit One Over My Head, reflect a career steeped in baseball writing.

David lives in New Hampshire.

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Format: Paperback