Show and/or tell of your Casey Stengel stuff

[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]