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New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel and Leo Durocher, (PHOTO: National Baseball Hall of Fame/GETTY)
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Stengel and Durocher: Home Runs
and Spitballs
Evening Program with Book Signing
Monday, August 14, 2017 - 6:45 p.m.
$30 Member
$45 Non-Member
Location S.
Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Dr SW
Metro: Smithsonian (Mall exit)
Leo Durocher, a rugged, combative
shortstop and a three-time All-Star, became a legendary manager who won three
pennants and the 1954 World Series. His biographer Paul Dickson calls him “one
of the most hated men in the game, a distinction he did little to shed and much
to cultivate.”
Casey Stengel, by contrast, is
portrayed by author Marty Appel as “baseball’s greatest character.” For more
than 5 decades he was the quirky, hilarious, and beloved face of the game, and
led his New York Yankee teams to a spectacular 10 pennants and 7 World Series
championships.
Stengel and Durocher both were
brilliant managers—and natural adversaries—who eventually and inevitably,
actually once came to blows over America’s pastime. Join Dickson and Appel in
conversation with attorney and veteran sportscaster Phil Hochberg for an
evening of sports stories, tall tales, and history as they examine the parallel
baseball lives of a good guy and a bad guy.
“Casey Stengel: Baseball’s
Greatest Character” (Doubleday) and Leo Durocher: “Baseball’s Prodigal Son”
(Bloomsbury) are available for signing.
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| Casey Stengel and Don Larsen meet the press after Larsen's perfect game pitched in the 1956 World Series |
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| Owner Horace Stoneham, Bobby Thomson and New York Giants manager Leo Durocher, after the 1954 World Series. |
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