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Inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame in 2017.

Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1966. Played for the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers (1912-1917), Pittsburgh Pirates (1918-1919), Philadelphia Phillies (1920-1921), New York Giants (1921-1923), and Boston Braves (1924-1925). Manager of the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers (1934-1936), Boston Braves (1938-1943), and New York Mets (1962-1965); and of the American League's New York Yankees, 1949-1960.

He then became the manager of the new National League franchise in New York, the Mets, which proceeded to lose a record 120 games in their inaugural season in 1962, prompting Casey to ask rhetorically, "Can't anybody here play this game?" After having tasted such great success with the Bronx Bombers, Casey ended his professional baseball career losing over 100 games a year (average: 113) and finishing in last place in '62, '63 and '64.

Despite winning ten pennants and seven World Series victories in twelve years as Yankees skipper, the team forced him out of the cat bird seat after the 1960 season, when the Yanks lost the World Series in seven games.

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (The Old Perfessor) was not only one of the most successful managers in baseball history, he was one of the sport's most colorful characters as well. He played 14 years in the major leagues, but it is his managerial career that put him in the Hall of Fame. After managing the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves during several of the two franchises' most hapless years, Casey was picked to helm the New York Yankees in 1949, after a successful stint as manager of the Pacific Coast League's Oakland Oaks.

Under Stengel, the Yankees won the American League pennant every year from 1949 through 1960 except for two years: 1954 and 1959.

He had two game-winning homers during the 1923 World Series. His Game One inside-the-park home run was made more dramatic due to one of his shoes falling apart (which slowed him down). After that home run, he was alleged to have turned and given the finger to the Yankees' bench - the same bench on which, twenty six years later, he would start leading the Yankees to one of their greatest runs of glory.

While playing for the Dodgers in 1919, Stengel tipped his cap to the crowd to display a small bird flying out, delighting the fans in attendance.

Made major league debut as a player on 17 September 1912.