Stengel, (Charles Dillon) Casey (1891–1975)

US baseball player and manager. From 1912–25 he played outfield in the major leagues (1925–31 in the minors) compiling career averages of .964 for fielding and .284 for batting. As manager of the Yankees 1948–60, he won ten pennants and seven World Series championships, including five of each in a row 1949–53. He managed the New York Mets 1962–65.

He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. One of baseball's characters and a manager of eccentric genius, Stengel abandoned dental school and began his distinguished six-decade career in Kankakee, Illinois, in 1910. Known for his encyclopedic knowledge of players and for making strategic choices, his famous quotable malapropisms and ‘Stengelese’ attained legendary proportions in the 1958 Senate subcommittee hearings examining baseball's trust-exempt status. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.