Stengel, Casey (redirected from Charles Dillon Stengel)

Stengel, Casey (Charles Dillon Stengel), 1891–1975, American baseball player and manager, b. Kansas City, Mo. Stengel began playing professional baseball in 1910, and from 1912 to 1925 he played with the Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston clubs of the National League. Here he compiled a lifetime major-league batting average of .284. After 1925 he managed baseball teams in the American Association and the Pacific Coast League. In 1949 he became manager of the New York Yankees of the American League, and under his astute leadership the Yankees won ten pennants (1949–53, 1955–58, and 1960) and seven world championships. The colorful "Perfesser" holds a spectacular major-league record for managing his team to five consecutive pennants and five consecutive world championships. A colorful figure, especially noted for his conversational ability, Stengel managed the New York Mets of the National League from 1962 through 1965. Stengel was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.

Bibliography

See his autobiography (1961); biography by J. Durso (1967).

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Stengel, Casey

 orig. Charles Dillon Stengel

(born July 30, 1891, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.—died Sept. 29, 1975, Glendale, Calif.) U.S. baseball player and manager. Stengel played outfield with the Brooklyn Dodgers (1912–17), Pittsburgh Pirates (1918–19), Philadelphia Phillies (1920–21), New York Giants (1921–23), and Boston Braves (1924–25). He became a coach and manager of the Dodgers and Braves but achieved his greatest success with the New York Yankees (1949–61), leading the team to 10 pennants (5 in consecutive years) and 7 World Series championships (5 in consecutive years) in 12 years. He later served as vice president and manager of the newly formed New York Mets (1962–65), a team that became noted for its dismal performance during these early years. Throughout his career Stengel was known for his showmanship and his idiosyncratic use and misuse of English, called “Stengelese” (for example, “I've always heard it couldn't be done, but sometimes it don't always work”).

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Stengel, (Charles Dillon) Casey (1891–1975) baseball player/manager; born in Kansas City, Mo. One of baseball's authentic "characters" and a manager of eccentric genius, Stengel abandoned dental school and began his distinguished six-decade career in Kankakee, Ill., in 1910. From 1912–25 he played outfield in the major leagues (1925–31 in the minors) compiling career averages of .964 for fielding and .284 for batting. Coaching and managing after 1932, as manager of the Yankees (1948–60) he won ten pennants and seven World Series championships; in the five seasons from 1949 to 1953, he won five consecutive pennants and Series. He managed the New York Mets from 1962–65 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. Known for his encyclopedic knowledge of players and for making strategic choices "against" the averages, his famous quotable malapropisms and "Stengelese" attained legendary proportions in the 1958 Senate subcommittee hearings examining baseball's trust-exempt status.