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Old 02-10-2007, 10:30 PM
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Default OT Casey Stengel's final game? (Call this "Casey's Last Stand")

Posted By: Al C.risafulli

Tom:

Sounds like that ticket stub would be an awesome thing to own.

July 30 was Casey's 75th birthday. From what I can gather, there was a birthday party for him on the evening of the 24th. As mentioned above, I suppose it was at Toots Shor's. I'm basing that assumption on this telegram from Bill Shea, which I thought you might be interested in seeing:



A few telegrams from the following day, July 25, sent to Casey wishing him a quick recovery:





Note Casey's handwriting on a few of the telegrams; he made notes like that on a lot of his correspondence, noting when he had responded to someone's letter, if he had sent anything along, or noting how many letters he had gotten on a particular issue. Casey seemed to be a pretty meticulous guy.

These telegrams would corroborate that his accident happened after midnight on the 24th/25th as noted above, probably after his birthday party.

He did continue to participate in Old Timer's games right up through the 1975 season.

-Al

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