Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character [Paperback]

A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

Winner of the 2017 Casey Award for the Best Baseball Book of the Year

“The ultimate biography.” —The New York Times

As a player, Charles Dillon “Casey” Stengel's contemporaries included Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, and Christy Mathewson. As a legendary manager, he formed indelible, complicated relationships with Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Billy Martin. For more than five glorious decades, Stengel was the undisputed, quirky, hilarious, and beloved face of baseball—and along the way he revolutionized the role of manager.

But for a man who spent so much of his life in the limelight Stengel remains an enigma. Acclaimed New York Yankees' historian and bestselling author Marty Appel digs into Casey Stengel's quirks and foibles, unearthing a tremendous trove of baseball stories, perspective, and history. Weaving in never-before-published family documents, Appel creates a matchless and intimate portrait of a private man. Casey Stengel is a biography that will be treasured by fans of our national pastime for years to come.“Casey Stengel, by Marty Appel, is the ultimate biography.”
—The New York Times

“Casey Stengel: Baseball’s GreatestCharacteris a wonderful romp through our collective field of dreams, from the medieval days of the sport to the modern era.”
—The Christian Science Monitor

“Casey Stengelis a vivid, loving, deeply researched valentine to the greatest character in the history of baseball.”
—New York Daily News
 
“Casey Stengelis a terrific read which will cure you of any notion that the Ole' Professor was anything else than a baseball genius.”
—The Dallas Morning News

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