Casey Stengel (44 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A collection of the wisdom of baseball's Casey Stengel features quotes about players, the game of baseball, pitching, fielding, batting, baserunning, and attitude and includes commentary by DiMaggio, Mantle, and others. Former library book. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wendell Minor; (illustrator). First Edition. Quarter-bound in blue cloth on blue boards; lettered in silver on the spine; blue endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white plates. Light rubbbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. Dj painting of Stengel by Wendell Minor. This includes a dropped-in baseball card featuring Casey Stengel as the Yankees manager, from 1983 TCMA card series. The Contents are: Prelude: Who Was Case - What Was He; Family and Childhood - One Very Dead Chicken; School Days - I'm Charlie Stengel; The Minor Leagues - A Coffin in Kankakee; Moving on Up - The Tobasco Kid's Advice; Debut in Brooklyn - Stengel the Phenom; Settling In - The Good Days and the Bad; The Federal League War - A Matter of Money; Uncle Robby - Who Dropped the Grapefruit; The 1916 Pennant - Casey Hits the Big One; Moving on Down - Farewell to Brooklyn; After the War - A Sparrow in His Hat; The Little Napoleon - McGraw of the Giants; The Polo Grounds - Wake Up Muscles; Winning for McGraw - Casey Comes Through; The 1923 World Series - Stengel the Hero; To Boston and Points West - Mud Hen Glory; The 1930s - Is Brooklyn Still in the League; Discharged Again - Cheers for a Broken Leg; Comeback - Helping Out Jolly Cholly; Oakland - It's Nice to Have a Bridge Around; The 1949 Yankees - Biggest Thrill of All; Taking Command - It's Casey's Team Now; Growing Your Own - The Instructual School; Five Flags and Mickey - The One Disappointment; Becoming a Legend - Stengel the Public Figure; Billy Phil and Estes - I Was No Doubt Discharges; Signs of Disintegration - The Long Yankee Slump; The Last World Series - A Shortstop's Throat; Out and In - Goodbye Yankees Hello Mets; A Way to Retire - One Broken Hip; Do Not Go Gentle - Talking Talking Talking; and Coda - The End of a Man; followed by an index. Size: 8vo. Book.

PAPERBACK. Condition: VG. 1ST.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 352 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Writing by: Roger Maris; Yogi Berra; Joe DiMaggio; Casey Stengel; Jane Leavy; Whitey Ford; Jim Bouton; Sparky Lyle; Craig Nettles; Lou Piniella; Dave Winfield; Tommy John; Jack Chesbro; Frederic P. O'Connell; Donald Dewey; Nicholas Acocella; Rng Lardner; J. J. Ward; Grantland Rice; Frank Graham; Damon Runyon; Waite Hoyt; Heywood Broun; Billy Evans; F. C. Lane; Jonathan Eig; Leo Trachtenberg; Robert W. Creamer; Chet Williamson; Richard Ben Cramer; Arthur O. Anderson; Gene Schoor; Roger Angell; and a host of others. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated Endpapers (illustrator). First Printing. A stated First Printing. The original price on the dust jacket shows a reduction in pen from 3.95 to 1.49. There is noticeable wear to the dust jacket including a stain to the bottom portion of the spine and bottom portion of the rear cover. The bottom page edges are slightly stained but there is no ill effect and all pages fan easily. The spine of the book is tanned and therefore no longer a uniform white in color. All lettering on the spine is very legible. 254pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fair to good condition. Creasing and rubbing along fore edge and top edge of front cover. Damp wrinkles at top edge of most pages, especially front pages. Three sharp creases at top corner of back cover. Pages 85-92 are loose.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. 1st Edition. 1st Edition in the Stated 1st Printing with price-clipped dustcover in a Brodart cover (1962, İ1961.) A pleasant vintage copy: sound, reasonably bright, and unmarked with excellent color throughout. Bit of chipping to dustjacket edges; still 98% present. Octavo. 254 pp. All in all, a VG+ in VG-.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Original issue. Staplebound, color drawing on front cover by Bill Gallo, inspired by "The Spirit of '76", 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 60 pp, illustrated with black and white drawings and photographs, ads for local businesses, includes laid-in 4 pp evening's program, "Official $35 Score Card". Paperback, near fine. Covers starting to lightly age yellow, minor shelf wear, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Bicentennial themed souvenir magazine, including tributes to Casey Stengel and Joan W Payson, winners of the Sid Mercer, Bill Slocum and Babe Ruth Awards, etc. Baseball; sports; memorabilia; history; journalism.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club edition. Octavo. 258pp. Binding slightly cocked and a trifle bumped, near fine in a bright, very good dust jacket with edgewear, and light foxing at the edges of the flaps. Four-page Book Club brochure for the title laid in.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Eleventh anniversary issue of March 14, 1993. Slim small quarto. 31, [1] pp. Stapled self-wrappers. Paper evenly tanned else fine. "That spring, the war threw baseball a curve, Connecticut became Florida, and Casey Stengel taught at Choate.".

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($18.95 price intact). Published by St. Martin's Press, 1992. Quarto. Book is like new with previous owner name on flyleaf. Dust jacket is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Boards have sunning and light wear at edges. DJ has soiling and wear; chipped at edges; some wrinkling on front/.

First Edition. HIT AND RUN in The Saturday Evening Post for September 16, 1961, first edition, very good plus to near fine in wraps. Also contains works by Gerald Kersh, Herman Kahn, Casey Stengel (with the help/translation of Harry Paxton), et.al along with a full color cover by Norman Rockwell.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good +. 1st Edition. Original complete pulp in very good plus condition. Edges taped for preservation. Kid Jinx T. W. Ford ss boxing The Gay Receiver Arthur Mann ss; baseball. Tennis Thunder Ben Peter Freeman ss Bees in My Bonnet, Manager Boston Nationals Casey Stengel ts Hearts and Diamonds Ernie Phillips ss baseball. Basket Magic Wm. R. Cox ss basketball Stooge of the Spikes Eric Robert ss track A Hitch in Nine Bob De Haven ss; baseball. Parlay Material A. R. Thurman ss boxing Suicide Crate Harold Rogers ss auto racing. Magazine.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. An article/advertisement from a vintage journal and not the complete magazine ; ; 10 x 12; 5 pages.

near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Spine has some very light wear at the top. ; Photographs;

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. Dust jacket condition: VG-. First edition (stated). Edgewear and several monoe edge tears and creases to jacket. 254 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Nagle pitched for the LA Angels of the PCL in 1905 and moved to the Pirates in 1911. He recalls Walter Johnson, Cobb, & Wagner. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Baseball; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1966.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Some spotting to the top edge, else about fine in price-clipped, and lightly rubbed, very good dustwrapper with amodest scrape on the rear panel. A nice copy of the manager's memoirs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. DJ is price-clipped; Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Cover shows moderate edgewear, fading and scuffing; Binding is sound; Previous owner name blacked out on half-title page; Interior pages are unmarked; Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo about fine in a rather chipped d.j., good only.VVclst1boxtop.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Signed by Author. Nagle pitched for the LA Angels of the PCL in 1905 and moved to the Pirates in 1911. Fine/Very Good. Multiple copies available this title. Dust jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Baseball; Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1193.