This city of his birth provided Charles Dillon Stengel with his nickname, Casey
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Casey Stengel - Eve's Magazine  Charles Dillon Stengel was born in Kansas City, Missouri (hence the nickname Casey) in 1889, and played the ... But Casey's managerial career spanned 25 years, and his record with the Brooklyn ... And in one never-to-be-forgotten moment, he offered a baseball bromide that good pitching always defeats good hitting.
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Casey Stengel | Society for American Baseball Research  Casey Stengel is best remembered for his managerial accomplishments with the ... Charles Dillon Stengel was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 30, 1890. ... in the big leagues, Stengel had a nickname, a .478 batting average, nine RBIs, and .... Manager McGraw had stockpiled outfielders and when he offered Casey a...
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Casey Stengel facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel is a legendary figure in baseball, as well ... He also developed an intricate system of "platooning" his players to get the most from ... Because he talked so much about Kansas City, he earned the nickname "K.C.,"...
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Casey Stengel - Wikipedia  Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel nicknamed "The Old Perfessor", was an American Major League Baseball right fielder and manager. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. Stengel was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and originally nicknamed "Dutch" ... After his major league career began, he acquired the nickname "Casey",...
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Casey Stengel - Historic Missourians - The State Historical Society ...  He was born Charles Dillon Stengel on July 30, 1890, in Kansas City, ... Stengel, who was given the nickname Casey as a tribute to his Kansas City roots,...
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New Orleans, LA - Statue of Ignatius J. Reilly - Roadside America  The unlikely hero of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "A ... The Ignatius J. Reilly statue has been returned to its rightful place on Canal Street.
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About Us | KansasCity.com & The Kansas City Star  Find information about The Kansas City Star and KansasCity.com in Kansas ... It faces competition from two morning papers, The Times and The Journal, ... Swope deeded to the city 1,200 acres, which became the park that bears his name. ... Jennings Bryan, magazine muckraker Lincoln Steffens and William Howard Taft.
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Hangout - The Garden State - State.NJ.us  Abraham Browning of Camden is given credit for giving New Jersey the nickname the Garden State. According to Alfred Heston's 1926 two-volume book Jersey...
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John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Literary New ...  Dec 17, 2012 ... John Kennedy Toole, author of A Confederacy of Dunces, a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, and tours the United States like Toole. ... readers to its hero, Ignatius J. Reilly, a comic character for the ages: glutton, ... Ignatius lives with his widowed mother in an unfashionable...
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jeopardy/1954_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE OLD WEST | These last names of Springfield, Mass. gunmakers Horace & Daniel were very familiar to people in the Old West | Smith & Wesson. right: Karim.
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Metro Pulse/Secret History/Nashville vs. Knoxville  Knoxville made sense as a state capital in those days, when most of .... Today, Roy Acuff and Chet Atkins are the two performers who have streets named for...
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Charles Marion Russell - Wikipedia  Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864  October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an artist of the Old American West. Russell created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Indians, and ... The C. M. Russell Museum Complex located in Great Falls, Montana, houses more...
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Free Flashcards about PLACE NAMES - StudyStack  APPROPRIATELY, THIS PENNSYLVANIA CITY THAT WAS FOUNDED IN 1741 WAS NAMED AT CHRISTMASTIME, BETHLEHEM. MARK TWAIN'S BROTHER...
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University Productions Presents - Guys and Dolls  In his stories, Runyon transformed the area between Times Square and Columbus Circle into a ... acknowledged, "He...had everybody believing that his street, Broadway, actually existed." ... It is ironic, if not prophetic, that prototypical Manhattanite Albert Damon Runyan was born in Manhattan. Manhattan, Kansas, that is.
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Casey at the Bat - Dictionary definition of Casey at the Bat ...  Although Thayer wrote many other ballads besides Casey at the Bat, they all ... Hopper later wrote that he had recited baseball's most famous poem more than ... But Flynn preceded Casey, and likewise so did. Blake, And the former was a ... There are three references to death: Cooney and Burrows have died, and the...
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William Harrison 'Jack' - RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Joel ...  Mar 1, 2015 ... __ ___ ____Manassa (Conejos) CO, USA (residence) ... He was never a "beloved" fighter, especially after he was unfairly brought up on ... Harry Dempsey was tough, he came from tough Logan County (WV) stock ..... He was Slacker Jack, even though Willard wasn't in the Army either (he was too tall).
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Generals Francis Nash and William Lee Davidson - JStor  The capital city and the capital county of Tennessee bear their names, respectively. ... Nashville "was named in honor of Colonel Francis Nash. He was an early...
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Jeopary Questions page 873 - MEET THE PREZ - TriviaBistro.com  Born off the Ohio Pike: I invented so much stuff in N.J. they named a township for me (take Exit 10 ... MEET THE PRESS: It calls itself "The newspaper of Capitol Hill since 1955" ... THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS MET HERE: For less than 2 months in 1784 this New Jersey city, named for a businessman, was our capital.
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jeopardy/170_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Wrong: Value: $800. Number: 27. X, Y, Z | This Michigan city was settled in 1825 and named for a nineteenth-century Greek patriot | Ypsilanti. right: Roy. Wrong:.
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Fight for Jim Thorpe's remains continues 62 years later - USA Today  Aug 8, 2015 ... The man this borough is named for lived one of the most astonishing ... onetime coalmining towns in northeastern Pennsylvania that agreed to merge ... King Gustav told him, Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world. .... We paid good money for him and we put his name on our town, and now he's ours.
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Ten Unexpected Nicknames for Charles - Appellation Mountain  Aug 29, 2014 ... Default nickname Charlie is an every-boy staple, while the other go-to, Chuck, ... Chas, Chaz  This one has been around for a while, and actor Chazz ... It's just one sound removed from the friendly, enduring Charlie  though...