Casey Stengel

The Dodgers are hopeful.

The New York Yankee manager, Casey Stengel, has given most of the men up here in the press box today a little bit of excitement because he changed his lineup about five minutes ago.

Bob Serve now will lead off for New York and play left field.

Gil McDougal will bat second and play third base.

Old competition down there batting at .500.

Three hits for six times up in the series.

His help has been invaluable to Casey Stengel and the Yankees since his return from service.

Ready for the first pitch to him.

So the Mets playing a one-game series with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and this broadcast comes to you through the courtesy of Rheingold Breweries, Incorporated, Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation, and the Shell Oil Company.

Now Bill Mazeroski going off to the Pirate dugout on the first base side, and Casey Stengel going off to the left side, as the umpires get all set to take their stations and the Pittsburgh Pirates come out on the field.

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Home plate umpire for this game will be Ken Burkhart.

Carl Furillo is one of the latest to signify his intention of being on hand.

There will be Hall of Famers there, Max Carey, Frankie Frisch, Carl Hubbell, Burleigh Grimes, Ed Roush.

Fellas like Don Newcombe, Carl Erskine, and Van Lingle Mungo, and Ralph Branca, Roy Campanella, and Mickey Owen, Doc Camilli, Eddie Stanky, Pee Wee Reese, and Augie Galan, Zach Wheat, Joe Medwick, Casey Stengel, Lefty O'Doul, and Babe Herman, and Carl Furillo, Sal Maglie, Rube Marquard, Jim Hearn, Hal Schumacher, Wes Westrum, Harry Danning, Paul Richards, Bubba Ginard, George Kelly, Johnny Mize, Frankie Frisch, Hughie Critz, Dave Bancroft, Dick Bartell, Travis Jackson, Freddie Lindstrom, Monte Irvin, Jo Jo Moore, Bobby Thomson.

And the Mets also will be playing the Philadelphia Phillies.

Kubek hitting 283 gets in.

When the Yankees won that ballgame in the 11th inning, um, the Casey Stengel had no longer any bench except a couple of pitchers.

They were down just as thin as they could go, not an extra man to catch infield or outfield.

Kubek cuts and misses on a slider, thrown hand high on the outside, strike one.

It rolled into short left field.

Before Thurf could fire it to second, Phillips was in with a double.

DeLeHoss scored, and here comes Casey Stengel.

Casey Stengel coming out of the Yankee dugout.

On the three-two pitch.

Manager Casey Stengel didn't have the running, runner going.

He stayed at first base, and the reason for that is that Johnny Lewis leads the club in strikeouts with 36.

That's strikeout number 37 for him.

Frank is under it waiting.

One man down in the ninth.

Now Skipper Casey Stengel has come out of the dugout and is talking with his pitcher, Frank Larry.

One out and nobody out in the ninth.

Hello everybody, this is Lindsey Nelson with Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner at Shea Stadium, as the Mets and the Dodgers open up a four-game series.

At home plate right now, the umpires are there with Captain Maury Wills of the Dodgers, Manager Casey Stengel of the New York Mets.

It's a beautiful night for a baseball game, and it's gonna be Don Drysdale pitching for the Dodgers, Warren Spahn going for the Mets.

We'll check out the lineups in just a moment, but first, it's very hard to sell sheet music in Jamaica, you know? They make up songs whenever they need them, like this.

Batting eighth and playing center field, Billy Cowan.

Batting ninth and pitching, Warren Spahn.

At home plate, Captain Maury Wills of the Dodgers and Manager Casey Stengel of the Mets still are going over ground rules with the umpiring crew.

Tonight, the umpiring assignments.

So, uh, those, I mean, those were great teams that were, were coming through here, and all of the great pitchers, uh, Koufax, Drysdale, Marischel, uh, Bob Gibson, uh, all of those, those players came through here.

Um, the Mets were the other team that got the expansion franchise the same time as Houston did, and Casey Stengel was their manager.

There's a great story about Casey Stengel because the, the clubhouses at Colt Stadium were metal buildings that were out in the outfield.

So you had to walk basically across the field to get there, and they were hot.

They may have had window units attached to them, but they're metal buildings in Houston in the summer.

He's quite a personality.

There was a time in his life when Jocko played for Casey Stengel.

At Toledo.

I think it was 1931.

Aaron has walked his first time up.

Casey Stengel once made the statement that he never saw Joe DiMaggio make a mistake going from first to third, and I think very rarely Henry Aaron has.

That takes judgment and instinct.

Not only speed, good base running ability, but the quick intelligence to know how, when to do it, and when not to do it.

The taste that's right.

Well, all around Los Angeles as the New York Mets came into town, people were asking everywhere, "What about Casey Stengel? When will Casey be back, and how is Casey Stengel?" Casey, of course, through the years with Mrs.

Stengel has, uh, made his home at Glendale in the greater Los Angeles area, and he has a whole host of friends and followers in this area who wish him the very best and a speedy return to the baseball wars.

As we go to the bottom half of the fourth inning, Don Lajan is up to lead off for the Dodgers.