Show and/or tell of your Casey Stengel stuff

[GoldenAge50s]

While I have several of Casey's 1950's issues, my best experience is a story:


Back in 1957, after my Jr yr in HS, 5 of us drove to Cleveland for a 4 game weekend series--Yankees @ Indians. We stayed downtown @ the Hotel Cleveland, where most visiting teams stayed.

We got there early Fri afternoon and the lobby was a busy place as we checked in. We got on a crowded elevator for our rooms and as the operator (yes, they had elevator operators back then!) started to close the door he abruptly reopened them again & said "There's room for one more, Mr Stengel.

We all pushed back & Casey ambled in, stood right tight in front of me & there I was, looking straight down on top of Casey's snow-white, balding head!


Got my weekend off to a great start, rubbing shoulders w/ Casey Stengel!

[rustywilly]

by a '51 Bowman, a '61 Scoops and finally settled on this Exhibits issue - my favorite of the bunch:

[doug.goodman]

Baseball Monthly supplement

[Bob Lemke]

56 Stengel front.jpg

56 Stengel back.jpg

[bcbgcbrcb]

Here's mine, the second earliest card picturing Stengel after his T210. Casey is pictured just above his initials, lying on the ground........

[ls7plus]

Some wonderful and really rare cards there! Thanks for posting the '23-'24 Exhibit, Mark. That's a very difficult card to find, and I know how you love your portraits. But the '53 Bowman black and white, for me, really captures an entire era!

Regards,

Larry

[yanksfan09]

1916 D381 (Actually a 1 line Fleischmann variation)

[ethicsprof]

when I was playing little league baseball in the early 60's, I---like a few of my buddies---decided to send letters to some of our favs.
It was in '62. I sent out numerous notes and received three responses:
one note from Gil Hodges who was convalescing after an illness; one note from another Met, the perfessor par excellence; and an autographed photo from Dodger Duke Snider. I loved them more than even my baseball cards at the time and still have all three items, beautifully framed. I have no recollection of who else I sent notes to---perhaps because they didn't answer me.
all the best,
barry

[Brian Van Horn]

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[tjb1952tjb]

it's the only Stengel card I have....................

[triwak]

My only Stengel, and well loved.

[turtleguy64]

One of my treasured items.My father in 1965 finally took a vacation out to S.F. Knew next to nothing about baseball.But he did know the likeness of Stengel from the newspapers.He is in the looby of Jack Tarr Hotel which happened to be Mets hotel when they played on the coast.He sees Stengel come into the lobby in a.m. Father runs to service desk,buys a postcard of the hotel,approaches Stengel and asks for an autograph for "his son." Stengel says why sure.And what team does your son like? Phillies,was the reply.Stengel writes ,Join the Mets,david.Then coaches and players begin filtering in.Stengel starts handing pen and postcard to each of them .i end up with a postcard that has Berra,Spahn,Coleman,Bearnarth,etc. on it.Loved that postcard.

[FrankWakefield]

Wow.... nice story on the postcard. Any chance of a scan being posted?

Reminds me of my only trip to Dodger Stadium... the Phillies were in town. It was 1964, I think. I was a Cardinals fan. I didn't know much, but I thought I knew to cheer for the team in red, so I did. There weren't many Phillies fans at that game... the Phillies won. Those 60's Dodgers could play some ball.

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by GoldenAge50s

While I have several of Casey's 1950's issues, my best experience is a story:


Back in 1957, after my Jr yr in HS, 5 of us drove to Cleveland for a 4 game weekend series--Yankees @ Indians. We stayed downtown @ the Hotel Cleveland, where most visiting teams stayed.

We got there early Fri afternoon and the lobby was a busy place as we checked in. We got on a crowded elevator for our rooms and as the operator (yes, they had elevator operators back then!) started to close the door he abruptly reopened them again & said "There's room for one more, Mr Stengel.

We all pushed back & Casey ambled in, stood right tight in front of me & there I was, looking straight down on top of Casey's snow-white, balding head!


Got my weekend off to a great start, rubbing shoulders w/ Casey Stengel!

Nice story.....it reminds me of my "elevator story" back in 1990. I was at the "500 HR" show in Atlantic City and when I entered a jammed pack elevator, towering above
the crowd was Ted Williams. I greeted him...."Hi Ted". With a nice smile, he returned the greeting. Ted got off at the next floor and several of the people in this elevator
asked me if he was some kind of celebrity ?

When I answered "Ted Williams", they were surprised. The thought occurred to me that 25 people in an elevator attending a BB card and celebrity show and not a single
person in that elevator recognized Ted Willians......you figure it (I cannot).


TED Z

[deebro041]

Not really a Casey Stengel item but here is a game ball from The Little World Series between The Toledo Mud Hens and The Buffalo Bisons in 1927. Casey managed the winning team Toledo Mud Hens.

[CW]

Great items from a great figure of the game, guys! I'll shoot Al C. a PM about this thread and see if he can add anything -- he should still have a pretty cool group of Stengel pieces from the man's personal collection.

[GoldenAge50s]

Your Williams story reminds of a time in Houston when I was the only one who spied (or even noticed) Willie Mays in a hotel lobby, so I felt compelled to approach him & ask for an auto as he left the front desk & headed for the elevator.

I did it descreetly so as not to call attention to him and he still bitched & moaned that someone recognized & bothered him, but I got the auto nonetheless!

[FrankWakefield]

I like them all... very nice red border up there, Cat.

I don't think there's a W514 yet, so here's one cut a bit close...



And I can offer a 1943 Dodgers scorecard.

Inside, where the game was scored, there are 7 autographs, all in pencil. 5 players, a coach, and a manager, all with the Boston Braves. The main reason I got the scorecard was because it was signed by Hugh Poland, a Kentucky fellow who caught a bit. He attended Western Kentucky University, and as I understand, he lettered in everything... baseball, football, basketball, track, wrestling... I stayed in a dorm named after him when I attended college there. The coach's signature is George Kelly, the Hall of Famer. And the manager, #32, was Casey Stengel.


Great Stengel stuff, guy!!! I think the 3rd baseball book I read, as a kid, was Allen's Now Wait a Minute, Casey. I still have a copy on the bedroom bookshelf. Might be time to reread it. An entertaining book.

[brianp-beme]

Here is his W503:

Brian

[kdixon]

Casey and Zach and I am not sure who the guy with the glasses is. I am sure someone else knows, this was in 1970.wheat stengle hof.jpg