Casey Stengel
- ISBN-10
- 0791021726
- ISBN-13
- 9780791021729
- Series
- Casey Stengel
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 64
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Chelsea House
- Author
- Lois Nicholson
Description
A biography of the colorful first manager of the New York Mets recounts his years as a player and a not always successful manager, and tells why he was better known as a personality than for his considerable baseball skills
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