Casey Stengel

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 baseballand 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.