10-20-2018, 08:41 PM
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What a great post!
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Originally Posted by Kawika
My best baseball memories are of watching Casey's Yanks at old Old Yankee Stadium, meaning the pre-Steinbrenner fustercluck, back in the 1950s. I was a kid and he looked like he was older than sin; I never imagined that he had been young once and a ballplayer too. Supposedly Mickey Mantle was also surprised to learn he had played. "What do you think, I was born at 60?", Casey told him. Wonder if Mick ever saw his T210.
1923 NY Giants [am not 100% positive but I believe Casey is in second row second from left]
Photo dated 1949
1951 Hollywood Stars scorecard
Photo circa mid-1950s
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