STENGEL - His Life and Times

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. Book. Illus. by Wendell Minor;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 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..