Full name: Stengel: His Life and Times

Author: Robert W. Creamer Year: 1984 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, Baseball, Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780803263673 0803263678

One of the most endearing of American heroes, Casey Stengel guided the New York Yankees to ten pennants in twelve seasons. Here is the brilliant manager stripped naked--the person underneath all the clowning, mugging, and double-talking. Robert Creamer shows us Casey at twenty-two, famous from his very first day in the big leagues. We see Casey's playing career fall apart as he is traded, shunted to last-place teams, hampered by injuries, considered finished--until he bats a glorious home run in the 1923 World Series. Here are Casey's managing successes and failures--dismissed by the Yankees, he returns to the limelight with his new and inept New York Mets, the team he single-handedly lifts into the nation's consciousness. "I'm a man that's been up and down," Casey said in a serious moment. Certainly his knack for bouncing back made him a legend in our national pastime. Here are the stories and gags, the Stengelian style, the full dimensions of the man. Similar books: Ty Cobb by Charles C. Alexander What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now? by Richard Ben Cramer The Big Bam by Leigh Montville Nice Guys Finish Last by Leo Durocher Stan Musial by George Vecsey A Well-Paid Slave by Brad Snyder The Last Hero by Howard Bryant John McGraw by Charles C. Alexander The Kid by Ben Bradlee, Jr. A Pitcher's Story by Roger Angell Willie Mays by James S. Hirsch Mickey and Willie by Allen Barra Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy Joe DiMaggio by Richard Ben Cramer Clemente by David Maraniss Winning Ugly by Brad Gilbert Racing Through the Dark by David Millar Play Their Hearts Out by George Dohrmann When Nothing Else Matters by Michael Leahy Belichick by Ian O'Connor