{"id":3143,"date":"2017-01-07T00:40:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T05:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2017-01-07T00:45:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T05:45:43","slug":"casey-stengel-baseballs-greatest-character-by-marty-appel-coming-march-28-2017-from-doubleday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/?p=3143","title":{"rendered":"Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character<\/i> \u2013 by Marty Appel Coming March 28, 2017 from Doubleday"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the New York Times<\/i> bestselling author of Munson<\/i> and Pinstripe Empire<\/i>, Casey Stengel<\/i> is the definitive biography of baseball’s greatest character.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Casey<\/a>There was nobody like Casey before him, and no one like him since. For more than fifty years, Casey Stengel lived baseball, first as a player (he was the only person in history to play for all the New York teams\u2014the Dodgers, Giants, Yankees, and Mets), and then as a manager (for the Yankees and Mets, among others). He made his biggest mark on the game, revolutionizing the role of manager while winning an astounding ten pennants and seven World Series Championships (including FIVE STRAIGHT!) with the Yankees. Playing with and against a Who’s Who of Cooperstown\u2014Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb\u2014and forming indelible, and sometimes complicated, relationships with Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Billy Martin, Casey Stengel was, for an astonishing five decades, the undisputed, hilarious, and beloved face of baseball.
\nFor a man who spent so much of his life in the limelight, he still remains an enigma. New York Times<\/i> bestselling author Marty Appel paints an intimate portrait of a private man who was larger than life and remains the embodiment of the national pastime.<\/p>\n

Preorder your copy at Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Editorial Reviews<\/h2>\n
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“Sports journalist Appel delves deeply into the baseball career and personal life of Casey Stengel (1890-1975), a solid player and legendary manager. Citing new material unavailable to previous Stengel biographers and chroniclers of the New York Yankees, the author offers an informative, smoothly written account of a complex and relentlessly interesting subject…Stengel is unquestionably one of baseball’s most significant characters, and Appel is the perfect fit to chronicle his life. One of the more skilled biographies baseball fans could hope to find.”
\n—Kirkus (<\/i>starred)\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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MARTY APPEL was the youngest PR director in baseball history when George Steinbrenner elevated him to the New York Yankees post in 1973. He worked for the team for ten seasons, beginning in 1968, and followed it by producing its games on WPIX television. He is the author of twenty-three books, including the New York Times <\/i>bestselling Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain<\/i> and Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss<\/i>. He resides in New York City.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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