It is, well, amazin’ that when you think of Casey Stengel you think of the Mets. He has an amazing resume as the manager of the Yankees, but when I think of those teams I never think of the manager (Joe Torre will fare better). When I think of Casey, I think of the Mets. The Washington Times wrote about him today:
The Yankees’ dismissal of Stengel angered many New York fans. When Casey returned to the dugout two years later with the hapless (40-120) expansion Mets, they drew well despite losing 100 or more games in each of their first three seasons and playing the first two in the antiquated Polo Grounds. And when Shea Stadium opened in 1964, the Mets promptly outdrew a Yankees team that was winning its fifth straight pennant.
One reason for the Mets’ success, of course, was the return of National League baseball to Gotham after an absence of four years. Another was Stengel’s popularity and knack for reportedly saying colorful things about the Mets such as, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
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