Casey Stengel

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (July 30, 1890 – September 29, 1975) was an American Major League Baseball right fielder and manager, best known as the manager of the championship New York Yankees of the 1950s and, later, the expansion New York Mets. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1890, and in 1910 began a professional baseball career that would span more than half a century. After almost three seasons in the minor leagues, he reached the major leagues late in 1912 as an outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers. His six seasons in Brooklyn brought some success, including a place on the team's 1916 National League championship club, and during this period he also developed a reputation as a clown. Following repeated clashes over pay with Dodgers owner Charlie Ebbets, Stengel was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1918, but that summer he enlisted in the Navy for the remainder of World War I. After returning to baseball, his continuing pay disputes led to trades to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1919 and to the New York Giants in 1921. Nicknamed "the Ol' Perfessor," he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.