Casey Stengel (July 30, 1890 – September 29, 1975) was the manager

of the championship New York Yankees teams of the 1950s and of the New

York Mets of the early 1960s. An outfielder for the 1912 Brooklyn

Dodgers, he played on their 1916 National League championship team, then

for the Philadelphia Phillies, the New York Giants and the Boston

Braves. In 1925, he began a career as a manager, with mostly poor

finishes for the next 20 years. In 1948, after he won the PCL title with

the Oakland Oaks, the Yankees hired him. In his twelve seasons, they won

ten pennants and seven World Series, including a record-setting five in

a row (1949–1953), but Stengel was fired after losing the 1960 World

Series. The Mets were an expansion team when they hired him in late

1961. They finished last all four seasons with Stengel, and he retired

in 1965. Remembered as one of the great characters in baseball history,

and known for his humorous sayings, Stengel was elected to the Baseball

Hall of Fame in 1966.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1955:

The first Indonesian legislative election resulted in an

unexpectedly poor result for the Masyumi Party of incumbent prime

minister Burhanuddin Harahap (pictured).

1990:

The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its

first flight.

2005:

John Roberts became the 17th Chief Justice of the United

States; he would be the first Chief Justice to serve for twenty years

since Melville Fuller in 1908.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

mneme:

Persisting effect of memory of past events.

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed

about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing

accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of

those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute

beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.  

--Epistle of Jude

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