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Damn Yankees
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member of the 1962 Mets, stated; "Don't shed any tears for Casey. He wouldn't want you to. He was the happiest man I've ever seen." Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times wrote; "God is certainly getting an earful tonight."
“You could look it up.” - Casey Stengel.
“The secret of managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.” - Casey Stengel.
Bill Veeck said of Stengel in 1966, soon after the manager's retirement; "He was never necessarily the greatest of managers,
but any time he had a ball club that had a chance to win, he'd win."
Stengel's American League rival, Al Lopez, once said of him; "I
swear I don't understand some of the things he does when he manages."
In spite of their falling out over the 1957 trade, Billy Martin, by then manager of the Yankees, wore a black armband in remembrance of Stengel during the 1976 season, the sole Yankee to do so.
According to author Robert Creamer; "It doesn't seem to be stretching the point too far to say that Ned Hanlon begat John McGraw who begat Casey Stengel who begat Billy Martin."