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

    07/10/2003 9:33:39 AM PDT · by Scott from the Left Coast · 33 replies · 586+ views
    Congressional Record | July 1958 | Casey Stengel et. al.
    On July 9, 1958, hearings were held in Washington by the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Senate. The Subcommittee was considering H.R. 10378 and S. 4070 to limit anti-trust laws so as to exempt professional baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Before them as an expert witness came Casey Stengel, whose verbal cuneiform has added the word "Stengelese" to our language. They say there was nothing like it, in all the history of Congressional hearings. TESTIMONY Senator Kefauver: Mr. Stengel, you are the manager of the New York Yankees. Will you...
  • The New York Mess

    09/26/2002 3:50:37 PM PDT · by BluesDuke · 33 replies · 439+ views
    The Polo Grounds: A Calm Review of Baseball ^ | 26 September 2002 | Jeff Kallman
    The New York MessMarvelous Marv - Don't Phone Home (You Don't Want To Know...) by Jeff Kallman "To be a Met fan," wrote Rick Moody, leading off a 2000 World Series postmortem, "is to be preoccupied with underdogs, and therefore to love and doubt equally." Easy for him to say. But let's see what Moody has to say now, with our Mets deep enough in the tank to be unable to see the bottom of the water level ball without a telescope, and on their 40th anniversary to boot.The 2002 Mets seem bent on ending the season in fifth place, which translates today to...