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Casey Stengel

Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.

Casey Stengel was a well known baseball player. Casey was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1966. His full name was Charles Dillon Stengel and nickname was The Old Perfessor. Casey Stengel was born on July 30th, 1890, in Kansas City, Missouri. His height is 5 foot 11 inches and weight is 175 pounds. He was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 17th, 1912, with the Brooklyn Dodgers which was his first game and his last game was on 19th May 1925. In his playing career he played 1277 games and 12 World Series. He made .284 average runs.

He played right field until, on July 1, 1921, he was traded to the New York Giants where he became a backup outfielder and was on three pennant winners from 1921 to 1923. In 1923 he hit two game-winning home runs. He was the regular right fielder for the cellar-dwelling Braves in 1924, but by 1925 his playing days in the majors were over. In 1926 he was hired to manage the Toledo Mud Hens of the minor leagues.

Casey Stengel with all his dedication and devotion in his play has achieved many hallmarks in his overall baseball-playing career. He had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by giving some extra hard work and efforts.

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