Nowadays, when a pitcher gets a ball close to the hitter, the hitter comes back to the bench and says: You know, I think he's throwing at me. That shows you how times have changed. When I broke in, you knew damned well they were throwing at you.
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Casey Stengel was a 19th-century American baseball player and manager. Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel 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. Nicknamed "the Ol' Perfessor", he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. Read more on Wikipedia →