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Casey Stengel Photo Gallery
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- The 1923 World Series Champion Yankees
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- Reunion of the 1923 World Series Champion Yankees, June 13, 1948
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- Casey Stengel’s home run wins Game One of the 1923 World Series
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- Casey Stengel was the Boston manager from 1938-43, with little success
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- Ralph Hodgin, Stan Andrews, Eddie Miller, Buddy Hassett, Phil Masi, Tom Early, Casey Stengel, 1939
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- Tom Early and Casey Stengel
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- Fred Frankhouse, Al Simmons, Red Barkley, Buddy Hassett, Casey Stengel, 1939 (colorization by Don Stokes)
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- Casey Stengel and Jimmy Piersall. Jimmy was let go after Stengel said: “We don’t need another clown.”
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- “Read it and weep!” Casey Stengel contemplates his Mets’ roster
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- Casey Stengel watches as the ceremonial First Pitch is thrown out.
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- Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel
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- Casey Stengel, 1924 (Charles Conlon collection)
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- Yankee managers: Bucky Harris, Roger Peckinpaugh, Clark Griffith, Joe McCarthy, Casey Stengel, Bob Shawkey
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- Casey Stengel with Jim Turner who later became his pitching coach in New York
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- Casey Stengel played in the game as a member of the Phillies
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- Nice colorization of Casey Stengel by Don Stokes
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- Bucky Harris with Casey Stengel, who replaced him as Yankee manager
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- Managers Casey Stengel and Eddie Sawyer
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- Vin Scully with Casey Stengel and Walter O’Malley
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- Casey Stengel and Fred Hutchinson
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- Yankees celebrating with manager Casey Stengel
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- HOF inductees Casey Stengel and Ted Williams, 1966
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- Mickey with manager Casey Stengel early in his career.
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- Mickey with manager Casey Stengel
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- Casey Stengel with a bad Braves team in 1939
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- Casey Stengel surveys the scene after the Mets final game at the Polo Grounds.
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- Willie Mays and Casey Stengel at the Polo Grounds
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- President Nixon throwing out first pitch with Ted Williams and Casey Stengel on hand
Casey Stengel’s Inside-the-Park Home Run Wins Game One of the 1923 World Series!
“It’s a good thing I didn’t hit three homers in three games, or McGraw would have traded me to the Three-I League!” –Casey Stengel commenting after he hit two home runs in the 1923 World Series and then was traded to the lowly Boston Braves.
Ninety-four years ago this week, Casey Stengel’s inside-the-park home run wins Game One of the 1923 Wolrd Series. His second roundtripper, October 12, 1923, proves to be the game-winner when Giants’ hurler Art Nerf out duels Yankees’ starter Sam Jones in Game 3 of the Fall Classic, 1-0.
The 1923 World Series pitted the Yankees against the Giants for the third consecutive year. The three consecutive matchups between the Yankees and Giants marked the only time that three straight World Series featured the same two clubs. The Giants won the first two meetings, but the third time proved to be the charm for the Yankees, as they prevailed against John McGraw crew four games to two.
The first game was also the first World Series game to be nationally broadcast on-site, a huge milestone in baseball history. The games were played in alternate parks between Yankee Stadium (the first year of its existence) and the Polo Grounds, not the 2-3-2 format that became the norm in later years. Babe Ruth had a great series, as he batted .368 and hit three home runs.
Casey Stengel’s Memorable Heroics:
The few highlights of the 1923 World Series for the Giants included Casey’s two home runs to win Games One and Three. The first was an inside-the-park homer off the Yankees’ Joe Bush in the top of the ninth of a game tied 4-4. Casey legged out the long drive after hitting it into deep left-center field of cavernous Yankee Stadium. The Giants held on to win the game 5-4 and took an early 1-0 lead in the Series.
In typical Stengel eccentric fashion, Casey’s shoe came loose while streaking around the bases! (See the featured photo above).
The third game started out as a scoreless pitching duel between the Giants’ Art Nehf and the Yankees’ Sad Sam Jones. There was no score until the seventh when Casey struck again, this time with a homer that left the park, giving the Giants a 1-0 victory and a 2-1 Series lead.
A quarter century later, Stengel became the Yankees manager, and guided them through one of their most successful eras. In 12 years as the Yankees skipper (1949-1960), Stengel won 1,149 games and led them to ten American League pennants and seven World Series titles.
Gary Livacari
Photo Credits: All from Google search
Information: Excerpts edited from the 1923 World Series Wikipedia page.
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“This is the way old Casey Stengel ran running his home run home when two were out in the ninth inning and the score was tied, and the hall still hounding inside the Yankee yard.
“This is the way—
“His mouth wide open.
“His warped old legs bending beneath him at every stride.
“His arms flying hack and forth like those of a man swimming with a crawl stroke.
“His flanks heaving, his breath whistling, his head far back. Yankee infielders, passed by old Casey Stengel as he was running his home run home, say Casey was muttering to himself adjuring himself to greater speed as a jockey mutters to his horse in a race, saying: ‘Go on, Casey, go on.’
“The warped old legs, twisted and bent by many a year of baseball campaigning, just barely held out under Casey until he reached the plate, running his home run home.
“Then they collapsed.” (Damon Runyon)