Casey Stengel
Chronology
| 1890 | Born July 30 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Louis E. and Jennie |
| 1908-09 | Plays semipro baseball with the Kansas City Red Sox |
| 1910 | Signs a contract to play with the Kansas City Blues Brooklyn Dodgers |
| 1910-11 | Tries dental school but drops out |
| 1912 | Is drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers and becomes the protégé of |
| 1913 | Hits the first home run in Ebbets Field |
| 1913-14 | Is given nickname "Casey" by Dodgers teammates |
| 1915 | Wilbert Robinson takes over as manager of Brooklyn Dodgers; the place infamous "grapefruit drop" occurs at Daytona Beach |
| 1916 | Hits .364 in the World Series for Brooklyn first place in the minor leagues |
| 1918 | Is traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1919 | In a game against former teammates the Brooklyn Dodgers, tips |
| 1919 | Is traded to the Philadelphia Phillies of Weiss, then Yankees general manager |
| 1921 | Is traded to the New York Giants |
| 1922 | Plays with the Herb Hunter All-Americans on their tour of the Far East; first team of major leaguers to play a Chinese team and first to lose a game in Japan. |
| 1923 | Becomes a hero for the Giants in the World Series, hitting two game-winning home runs, the first World Series home runs ever |
| 1923 | Is traded to the Boston Braves |
| 1924 | Marries accountant Edna Lawson and sets up home in Glendale, |
| 1925 | Retires as a player and takes first managerial job, at Worcester season ends, in Glendale, California |
| 1926 | Takes over as manager of Toledo Mud Hens; they win first Jordan Stengel championship in 1927 |
| 1931 | Mud Hens team goes bankrupt; Stengel is hired as coach for |
| 1934 | Signs contract to manage Dodgers |
| 1936 | Is fired by Dodgers after three losing seasons shortstop Kid Elberfeld |
| 1938 | Becomes manager of the Boston Bees (later Braves) |
| 1943 | Is hit by a taxi, fracturing a leg, an injury that never properly heals |
| 1944 | Is fired as manager of Bees after team finishes no higher than fifth |
| 1944 | Takes over as manager of Milwaukee Brewers and leads them to |
| 1945 | Becomes manager at Kansas City |
| 1946 | Takes over management of the Oakland Oaks, under general his hat when he comes up to bat and a sparrow flies out, to the manager George Weiss delight of the crowd |
| 1949 | Takes managerial reins of New York Yankees on recommendation |
| 1951 | Establishes first "instructional school" for Yankees |
| 1958 | Testifies before Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, giving a forty-five minute monologue in Stengelese that leaves senators confused and laughing |
| 1960 | Is let go by the Yankees, at age 70 hit in Yankee Stadium |
| 1962 | Becomes manager of newly created New York Mets |
| 1965 | Retires after suffering broken hip |
| 1966 | Is named to Baseball Hall of Fame California |
| 1975 | Dies of lymphatic cancer on September 29, the day after baseball |
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