I am learning some things about Casey Stengel, the great baseball manager (and player).
He grew up Charles Dillon Stengel in Kansas City, Missouri. Because he was from "KC" he picked up the nickname Casey.
He played in Montgomery in 1912. Hard to believe that Casey Stengel played a minor league season in Montgomery, Alabama.
Apparently he never finished high school and yet was able to enter dental school in Kansas City. Had he not made it in baseball, Casey Stengel would have been a dentist.
From the beginning he was a clown, always liked to have a good time, but played the game seriously. Indeed, he was thoroughly dedicated to the game of baseball, a great and continuing student of the game all his life.
His managerial mentor was John J. McGraw, the legendary manager for many years in the early decades of the 20th century of the NY Giants.
Stengel's inside the park homerun won the first game of the 1923 World Series against the Yankees in the first game played in the then brand new Yankee Stadium.
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