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Forging Genius: The Making of Casey Stengel
Steven Goldman
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paperback. When Casey Stengel was named the manager of the Yankees in 1949, baseball wags were stunned. What had Stengel ever done? His work managing the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves had been long on personality and remarkably short on success. Num Pages: 316 pages, 14 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 431.
When Casey Stengel was named the manager of the Yankees in 1949, baseball wags were stunned. What had Stengel ever done? His work managing the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves had been long on personality and remarkably short on success. They thought the Yankees would never be able to compete with the Red Sox or Indians with that broken-down old man in charge. At the All-Star break, the Yankees looked like a banged-up bunch of also-rans, not like a team about to embark on five straight championships. Yet Stengel seemed confident of success. As Steven Goldman explains, people had forgotten ... Read more
When Casey Stengel was named the manager of the Yankees in 1949, baseball wags were stunned. What had Stengel ever done? His work managing the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves had been long on personality and remarkably short on success. They thought the Yankees would never be able to compete with the Red Sox or Indians with that broken-down old man in charge. At the All-Star break, the Yankees looked like a banged-up bunch of also-rans, not like a team about to embark on five straight championships. Yet Stengel seemed confident of success. As Steven Goldman explains, people had forgotten ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Potomac Books, Inc. United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781574888744
SKU
V9781574888744
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About Steven Goldman
STEVEN GOLDMAN writes the column "The Pinstriped Bible," a regular web column for the New York Yankees focused on their history, and also contributes to Yankees Magazine and www.mlb.com. He lives in East Brunswick, New Jersey.
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