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One of the greatest characters in the game was "The Old Perfesser" Casey Stengel. Casey played 13 years for the Dodgers, Pirates, Phillies, Giants and Braves before starting his managerial career. After poor results managing the Braves and Dodgers, he took over the Yankees helm in 1949 and immediately won a record five World Series in a row. He would win two more with them giving him seven championships in 10 World Series appearances before he was let go. He ended his career as the first skipper for the expansion New York Mets where he set another record losing 120 games in his first season. He gained a reputation for being a clown with his humorous speech and antics but that didn't keep him from induction into the Hall of Fame in 1965. I currently have 76 different Beckett recognized cards of Old Casey including these nine.

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1958 Topps #475 All-Star Managers/Fred Haney/Casey Stengel (Pictured here with Braves manager Fred Haney.)
1959 Topps #383 Words of Wisdom/Don Larsen/Casey Stengel MG (Here he is with Don Larsen who pitched the only perfect game in World Series history just a few year prior to this photo.)
1959 Topps #552 Casey Stengel AS MG

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1960 Topps #227 Casey Stengel MG
1963 Topps #43 Veteran Masters/Casey Stengel/Gene Woodling (Woodling was an outfielder on the same Yankees teams that Casey managed to five consecutive World Series championships in the early '50s. In 1962 he found himself winding up his career with the same manager in the same city only with the hapless New York Mets.)
1964 Topps #324 Casey Stengel MG

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1964 Topps #393 Casey Teaches/Casey Stengel MG/Ed Kranepool (Tutoring a young Mets star.)
1965 Topps #187 Casey Stengel MG
2001 SP Legendary Cuts Game Jersey #JCS Casey Stengel Uni