Show and/or tell of your Casey Stengel stuff

[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

[kdixon]

Here is Mckechnie, Wheat, Casey and Roush at Shea Stadium