Copyright © 2017 by Marty Appel

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Robert Lipsyte for permission to reprint an excerpt from SportWorld: An American Dreamland (New York: Quadrangle, 1975); and Sporting News for permission to reprint excerpts from issues published on March 8, 1934; August 8, 1956; December 4, 1957; and October 1, 1958. All rights reserved.

Cover images: Casey Stengel by Donald Uhrbrock/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images; (ball) by Jules Frazier/Getty Images

Cover design Michael Windsor

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Appel, Marty, author.

Title: Casey Stengel : the greatest character in baseball / Marty Appel.

Description: First edition. | New York : Doubleday, [2017]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016027618 (print) | LCCN 2016028538 (ebook) | ISBN

9780385540476 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385540483 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Stengel, Casey. | Baseball managers—United States—Biography.

Classification: LCC GV865.S8 A66 2017 (print) | LCC GV865.S8 (ebook) | DDC

796.357092 [B]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2016027618

Ebook ISBN 9780385540483

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