Show and/or tell of your Casey Stengel stuff

[tedzan]

Thanks Al

For for sharing with us some of your really great Casey Stengel items.


TED Z

[FrankWakefield]

Great Johnson / Stengel letter... wow.

In the back of my mind are pieces of a story about Stengel, at the end of his playing days, also being a player, manager, and general manager for a team. I think it was Toledo. He got crossways with the owner. So he figured out a plan. As Manager he'd release himself as a player, and send that in to the National office. Then, as GM he'd fire himself as Manager. Then as GM he wrote the owner a letter of resignation.

He was a unique baseball personality.

[7nohitter]

Al,

That stuff is incredible...and knowing that Stengel kept it shows the "beyond the game" value it had for him.

Ok...and I have to know...those pics of Stengel and Wheat in their later years....isn't that EXACTLY how baseball-lifers should look????

[Gary Dunaier]

Here's a check Casey Stengel wrote October 12, 1961 - two days after the expansion draft in which the players who would comprise the inaugural 1962 Mets were selected. Note the reference to the Mets in the lower left corner -six months before the team's first game!