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Bibliographic Information
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Casey Stengel : baseball greatest character
First edition.
- Author
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Appel, Marty.
- Publisher:
- Doubleday,
- Pub date:
- [2017]
- Pages:
- x, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
- ISBN:
- 9780385540476
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult nonfiction shelves.
1 copy total in all locations.
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Adult non-fic hardcover
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Adult nonfiction shelves
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Casey Stengel : baseball greatest character
First edition.
Appel, Marty.
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Casey Stengel : baseball greatest character
First edition.
Appel, Marty.
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Personal Author:
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Appel, Marty.
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Title:
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Casey Stengel : baseball greatest character / Marty Appel.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Physical description:
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x, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Contents:
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Mail call -- Kansas City -- Lunatic beginning -- Aurora, Illinois -- Casey of Ebbets Field -- The grapefruit from the sky -- Good player? Bad player? -- A pennant for Uncle Robbie -- The Pirates and the Phillies -- McGraw and the Giants -- World Series heroics -- Edna Lawson -- Managing in the minors -- Back to Brooklyn -- Death of Koenecke -- Oil! -- Crossing Kenmore Square -- Milwaukee and K.C. -- Oakland -- The Yankees beckon -- "I owe it to myself" -- DiMaggio and Mr. Berra -- Whitey and Billy -- The Mick -- Taking on Jackie Robinson -- Five Straight -- October off -- Elston Howard -- One last subway series -- Trading Billy Martin -- Dazzling Congress -- Third-place Yankees? -- A pebble at shortstop -- Fired! -- Summer in Glendale -- Selling the amazin' Mets -- Worst team in history -- Closing the Polo Grounds -- Shea Stadium -- A slip and a fall -- Cooperstown -- An active retirement -- Saying goodbye -- Legacy.
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Summary:
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"A biography of the only baseball player in history to play for all the New York Teams describes how he went on to revolutionize the role of manager and won 10 pennants and seven World Series with the Yankees, "--NoveList.
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Personal subject:
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Stengel, Casey.
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Subject term:
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Baseball managers--United States--Biography.
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Subject term:
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Baseball managers--United States--Biography.