Summary: Longtime friend of the podcast Marty Appel joins the show to discuss his latest book. The New York Yankees historian and former publicity director who is also the author of the acclaimed Pinstripe Empire and New York Times-bestselling Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, returns this spring with CASEY STENGEL: Baseballs Greatest Character, an intimate portrait and definitive account of the single player who best embodied Americas national pastime. There was nobody like Casey before him. And certainly no one like him since. For more than fifty years, Casey Stengel lived baseball. First as a player, where he was the only person in history to play for all the New York teams, including the Dodgers, Giants, Yankees, and Mets and then as a manager, for the Yankees and Mets, among others. He made his biggest mark on the game revolutionizing the role of manager, all while winning an astounding ten pennants and seven World Series Championships including five consecutive titles with the Yankees. Playing with and against a Who's Who of Cooperstowns finest including Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb and forming indelible, and sometimes complicated, relationships with Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Billy Martin, Casey Stengel was, for an astonishing five decades, the undisputed, hilarious, and beloved face of baseball. Yet for a man who spent so much of his life in the limelight, he still remains an enigma. In CASEY STENGEL, New York Times-bestselling author Marty Appel paints an intimate portrait of a private man who was larger than life and remains the embodiment of the national pastime. Featuring fresh reporting drawn from a trove of a never-before-published research documents and source material, including a previously unpublished memoir by Caseys wife Edna, Stengels definitive biography is a must-read for every baseball fanatics library.
