Casey Stengel and Dave Roberts...

[Peter_Spaeth]

Yankees might not have been so successful if they had to go through the playoffs. Whole different era.

[FrankWakefield]

The playoff distinction seems applicable.

Casey managed in the minors. He had helped to get Jim Turner up to the majors in 1937, having managed him in the minors. Casey had Milkman Jim as his pitching coach with those Championship Yankee teams. Casey was in baseball forever, he knew a right smart about the game. I think it's too easy to underestimate what he accomplished.

In addition to the playoff system as a difference, the players are different. Current (modern) players have agents. They have idiosynchrasies, attitudes, and demands that would have been non existent back in Casey's day. Seems to me that Roberts is better attuned to deal with that.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Stengel learned much from McGraw, not a bad manager to learn from. Where one rates him is of course subjective, but it seems to me it can't be too far from the top.

[FrankWakefield]

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1665974412

[Peter_Spaeth]

My Stengel can't compare to a T210, but it's a nice card.

[JimC]

+1

[Casey2296]

I'm just guessing but I think Stengel probably has the longest span of baseball cards from his 1910 T210 to his 1965 Topps card.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

I'm just guessing but I think Stengel probably has the longest span of baseball cards from his 1910 T210 to his 1965 Topps card.

Just off the top of my head, what about Connie Mack? Appeared in the 1887 - 1889 Old Judge issue, followed by various issues throughout the years. He eventually even had his own designated issue of cards in 1951 with the Topps' Connie Mack All-Stars. He was in the 1961 Fleer Baseball Greats series, 1963 Bazooka All-Time Greats cards, and has appeared in other issues and sets over the years since then as well.