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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...