Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character

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The definitive biography of one in all baseball’s most enduring and influential characters, from New York Times bestselling writer and baseball author Marty Appel.

As a player, Charles Dillon “Casey” Stengel’s contemporaries included Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, and Christy Mathewson . . . and he used to be the only person in history to wear the uniforms of all four New York teams: the Dodgers, Giants, Yankees, and Mets. As a legendary manager, he formed indelible, complicated relationships with Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Billy Martin. For more than five glorious decades, Stengel used to be the undisputed, quirky, hilarious, and beloved face of baseball–and along the way he revolutionized the role of manager even as winning a spectactular ten pennants and seven World Series Championships.  

But for a man who spent such a lot of his life in the limelight–an astounding fifty-five years in professional baseball–Stengel remains an enigma. Acclaimed New York Yankees’ historian and bestselling writer Marty Appel digs into Casey Stengel’s quirks and foibles, unearthing a huge trove of baseball stories, point of view, and history. Weaving in never-before-published circle of relatives documents, Appel creates an intimate portrait of a private man who used to be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966 and named “Baseball’s Greatest Character” by MLB Network’s Prime 9. Casey Stengel is a biography a good way to be treasured by fans of our national pastime.

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