Casey Stengel's 1958 Congressional Testimony (Mid-Season Baseball Vanity)

Congressional Record | July 1958 | Casey Stengel et. al.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Pre-All Star Break enjoyment. Enjoy. After reading this can there be any doubt why baseball is etched so deeply into our national psyche? Can there be any doubts about anything?

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[stylin19a]

Mr. Mantle: My views are about the same as Casey's.

bwahahahaha

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Pinging baseball fans to some of the greatest baseball humor of all-time.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Pinging Hobbit Holers over to some of the greatest baseball humor of all-time (a personal vanity). Who'd I miss on my ping??? I know I missed some...

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged, we call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

Being unemployed at the moment, this one is my favorite.

[commandante_zero]

Can there be any doubts about anything?

Only about whacking people in hot dog costumes.

[nothingnew]

Only about whacking people in hot dog costumes.

BWAHAHAHA! Knocked the mustard right outta her.

FMCDH

[RonF]

I think Mantle had the best line.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

The entire testimony was videotaped (or whatever passed for videotaping in those days). The place completely breaks up when Mantle said that. It took quite awhile for the hearing room to calm down again.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Not in Randle Simon's mind, however.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Pinging to another bit of baseball history on this day...

[Mr. Mojo]

Classic, and hilarious. Too bad the Senate didn't ask Yogi Berra to appear as well.

[talleyman]

"You can observe a lot by just lookin'..."

[Charles Henrickson]

The Old Perfessor was Berra's manager for many years, of course. Can you imagine the two of them together? The mind boggles.

[Mr. Mojo]

Listening to Yogi and Casey conversing would be a mind-altering experience, probably not too dissimilar to drug-induced auditory hallucinations. Throw a drunk Mantle and Billy Martin into the mix and you'd have quite an entertaining combo. What a team!

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Yogi at bat

And Casey as a young man

[N. Theknow]

One of my fondest memories of the Old Perfesser was when Bill Veeck had fireworks installed in the scoreboard at the old Comiskey Park in Chicago and they were set off whenever a White Sox player hit a homerun.

I forget who the player, John Blanchard seems to ring a bell, was on the Yankees that hit a homerun and Casey had the players on the bench come out and run around the on deck circle and home plate with sparklers in their hands.

In the National League, The St. Louis Cardinals in Sportsman's Park had a large A-B emblem with the eagle in it that would light up and the eagle would flap its wings whenever one of the Cardinals would hit a hoer. A redbird swinging a bat would hit a large neon ball and it would go across the scoreboard and light up another neon ball with the words "It's A Hit!" whenever they would even get a single.

Casey also found a sparrow in the dugout one day when they were playing on the road and put it under his cap before going to the mound to have a little talk with Whitey Ford. On his way back to the dugout someone that had been heckling him all day gave him the raspberry and Casey tipped his cap and the bird flew out. The guy was so stunned he never said another word for the rest of the game.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Billy and Mickey heading for a night out...

[Mr. Mojo]

Man, did Yogi look powerful. ...build like a brick. He swung at everything, pitches over his shoulders as well as in the dirt. ...and usually connected. The man average a mere 32 strikeouts per year for his entire career! Extraordinary, considering his good power #'s. Most power hitters today average at list 100 SO.