STENGEL, CHARLES DILLON "CASEY" (WWI / BASEBALL GREAT) - Los Angeles County, California | CHARLES DILLON "CASEY" (WWI / BASEBALL GREAT) STENGEL - California Gravestone Photos

Charles Dillon "Casey" (WWI / Baseball Great) STENGEL

Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Glendale Cemetery
Los Angeles County,
California

July 30, 1890 - Sept. 29, 1975
US Navy

Playing for the Brooklynns Dodges, Stengel joined the US Navy rather than accepting a trade to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

He 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 elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.

Stengel's Yankees won the World Series five consecutive times (1949–1953), the only time that has been achieved. Although the team won ten pennants in his twelve seasons, and won seven World Series, his final two years brought less success, with a third-place finish in 1959, and a loss in the 1960 World Series. By then aged 70, he was dismissed by the Yankees shortly after the defeat.

Contributed on 11/13/20 by tomtodd
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Submitted: 11/13/20 • Approved: 4/26/21 • Last Updated: 4/26/21 • R9671-G0

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