One who I still fondly recall every opening day is Casey Stengel. When fans think of Casey, they picture the wizened manager/showman who helped make the hapless 1962 Mets an entertaining draw.

Stengel said Wes Westrum, the man he designated interim manager when Casey broke his hip little more than a month ago, will manage for the remainder of the season. Beyond that, Casey doesn’t say.

Casey Stengel went from being perceived as a clown to a gifted raconteur who made more sense than was immediately apparent to a venerable old man wisecracking his way through his twilight seasons ...

Casey Stengel had good intuitive sense. Casey was a great ballplayer and then a great manager. He said: “The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay ...

If there is a single term that sums up Casey Stengel in the annals of sport, it is showman. His presence in the lineup could fill a stadium while his wit and wisdom filled more than one book.

Casey Stengel, who died in 1975 at the age of 85, had a long career in baseball as a player and manager. But he’s perhaps most remembered for his invention of "Stengelese," a language he spoke ...

Casey Stengel and the Brooklyn Dodgers got great satisfaction by beating the New York Giants the last two games of the season, thus denying them any chances of repeating as World Champions, but ...

Baseball great Casey Stengel was one of a kind: the only person to play or manage for all the New York teams — the Dodgers, Giants, Yankees, and Mets — and the first to manage both of the latter.

The Stengel family gave Appel an unpublished 1958 memoir by Casey’s wife. Edna, which revealed a side of Casey most fans never knew. “He never really proposed,” Edna wrote.