Show and/or tell of your Casey Stengel stuff

[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)

[frankbmd]

and I go way back. We met back in '57.

[HRBAKER]

Mark,
That Exhibit is a beaut!

[RGold]

[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

[Cat]

[Brian Van Horn]

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[tjb1952tjb]

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

[triwak]

My only Stengel, and well loved.

[Big Six]

with Zach Wheat...love this shot and wonder what kind of stories they were sharing that day...

[Fuddjcal]

In the early 1970's, I would go to Dodger Stadium every Sunday that they were in town with my grand-pa. His brother had Season Tix on the field and it was too hot on Sunday afternoon for him. It was 1971 (I was 10) and sitting directly next to me is this old man baking in the sun in a old sports coat that looked like a horse blanket.

My grand-pa whispered" That's Casey Stengel". Who the hell is Casey Stengel I thought, but I could see in my Grand-pa's eyes, this was someone special. I got to talk to him through out the game and he loved it that my real name was Charles, like his. He took my program and wrote... To Chuck from Casey Stengel and "To Charles from Charles Casey Stengel, Good luck". He just scribbled on it everywhere. I couldn't believe all the fuss and fans coming to get his autograph. He never took a break in the 90-100 degree heat and we didn't leave until the very end. I was hooked! I loved that old guy! My grand-pa filled me in on the details and of course I read everything I could about him afterwards.

While I cherished that program, it somehow was misplaced or stolen. I have every other damned program and ticket stub, but the story and memories are part of what cemented me as a baseball fan and are memories I hold sacred and cherish to this day.

Here is my collection of the "Old Perfessor" (I love how he spelled it) Thanks for bringing back that special memory of me and my grand-pa today. I needed a good cry.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Fuddjcal

In the early 1970's, I would go to Dodger Stadium every Sunday that they were in town with my grand-pa. His brother had Season Tix on the field and it was too hot on Sunday afternoon for him. It was 1971 and sitting directly next to me is this old man baking in the sun in a old sports coat that looked like a horse blanket.

My grand-pa whispered" That's Casey Stengel". Who the hell is Casey Stengel I thought, but I could see in my Grand-pa's eyes, this was someone special. I got to talk to him through out the game and he loved it that my real name was Charles, like his. He took my program and wrote... To Chuck from Casey Stengel and "To Charles from Charles Casey Stengel, Good luck". He just scribbled on it everywhere. I couldn't believe all the fuss and fans coming to get his autograph. He never took a break in the 90-100 degree heat and we didn't leave until the very end. I was hooked! I loved that old guy! My grand-pa filled me in on the details and of course I read everything I could about him afterwards.

While I cherished that program, it somehow was misplaced or stolen. I have every other damned program and ticket stub, but the story and memories are part of what cemented me as a baseball fan and are memories I hold sacred and cherish to this day.

Here is my collection of the "Old Perfessor" (I love how he spelled it) Thanks for bringing back that special memory of me and my grand-pa today. I needed a good cry.

Thanks for sharing Chuck. The stories and memories such as these are certainly some of the best things which this board has to offer. It almost brought a tear to my eye just reading your post. (seriously)

[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.

[philliesphan]

a fairly obscure Casey Stengel card. Very hard to find him as a Philadelphia Phillie:

[tedzan]

Here's my Casey signature in my 1961 OLD TIMER's Photo Album....that includes 83 ballplayers autographs.

Rube Marquard, Zach Wheat, and Ray Schalk are my Album's first autographs (circa 1960's).






TED Z

[turtleguy64]

I will try and post a photo of this great signed Stengel signed postcard.I try not handling it too much.

[paul]

Here's one you don't see too often -- the colorized 1940 Play Ball.

[MikeGarcia]