Toni Mollett Harsh made Edna Stengel’s unpublished memoir, written in 1958, available and also spent countless time taking us through the Lawson and Stengel families. Bob Case, who worked for Casey in his retirement years, gave us many hours of reflection and recall. To those two, we are especially grateful for helping bring out the full Casey Stengel story.
Thanks as well to Michael McCoy for making available the unpublished memoir of Frank Crosetti, Casey’s coach on the Yankees during his entire managerial career there.
From those who granted interviews, thank you to Janet Allen (for her memories of her husband Maury); Craig Anderson; Dave Anderson; Yogi Berra; Ann Branca; Ralph Branca; Dr. Bobby Brown; Chris Cannizzaro; Joe Carrieri; Fred Claire; Roger Craig; Justin Dedeaux (for his memories of his father, Ron); Art Ditmar; Whitey Ford; Hank and Liz Goldberg (for their memories of their father, Hy); Steve Greenberg (for memories of his father, Hank); Jane and Michael Gross (for memories of their father, Milton); Jay Hook; Arlene Howard (and for her memories of her husband, Elston); Monte Irvin; Phil Jackson; Steve Jacobson; Dave Kaplan; Ed Kranepool; Tony Kubek; Craig, Randy, and Victoria Lang (for memories of their father, Jack); Doug and Jeffrey Lyons (for memories of their father, Leonard); Ken MacKenzie; Joe McDonald; Irv Noren; Phil Pepe; Dan Reilly; Bobby Richardson; Martha Richman (for the memories of her husband, Arthur); Lynn Rossi; Bobby Shantz; Rhoda Sherbell; Norm Sherry; Charlie Silvera; Ron Swoboda; George Vecsey; Bill Virdon; Bill Wakefield; Matt Winick; and Bob Wolff.
For support or research assistance, appreciation goes to Dom Amore, Brian Appel, Deb Appel, Lourdes Appel, Norm Appel, Ron Bailey, Peter Bavasi, Darrell Berger, Ira Berkow, Hal Bock, Robert Brady, Alana Pashon Case, Bob Chandler, Jim Charlton, Bill Chuck, Dennis D’Agostino, Jack Danzis, Joe Donnelly, Jerry Eskanazi, Steve Gietschier, Jane Hamilton, Chip Hider, Anne Gifford Jenkins, Dick Johnson, Lloyd Johnson, George Kalinsky, Lana Barcham Kaufman, Mark Langill, Jane Leavy, Marc Levine, Robert Lipsyte, Byron Magrane, Lauren Manning, David Margolick, Ryan McMahon, Fred McMane, Leigh Montville, Gene Morgan, Craig Muder, Kay Murcer, Ray Nemec, Ray Robinson, Jeff Roth, Matt Rothenberg, Frank Russo, Zach Sanzone, Al Silverman, Ed Stack, Andy Strasberg, John Thorn, Tom Tobar, Tom Villante, my agent Rob Wilson, and the team at Doubleday—Jason Kaufman, Rob Bloom, Bill Thomas, Maria Massey, Michael Goldsmith, and John Pitts.
I also wish to thank the sports writing community of 1910–75, for their reporting and collective contributions to the contents of this book, especially Fred Lieb, and the ballplayer Roger Peckinpaugh for audio interviews granted to me in the early 1970s.