2 1960 newspapers NY YANKEES FIRE Manager CASEY STENGEL after WORLD SERIES LOSS for Sale

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2 1960 newspapers NY YANKEES FIRE Manager CASEY STENGEL after WORLD SERIES LOSS:
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2 1960 newspaper sports-section front pages with bold headlines, long detailed articles and historicPHOTOGRAPHS announcing the New York yankees have fired lendendary manager CASEY STENGEL after 12 years at the helm, AFTER winning 10 pennants and seven (7) (That\'s Right - 7 !!!) WORLD SERIES TITLES!! - Inv # 9R-411

SEE PHOTO-----TWO ORIGINALNEWSPAPER SPORTS SECTION FRONT PAGES,theMilwaukeeSentinel (Wisc) dated October 19, 1960& Green Bay Press-Gazette dated October 18, 1960, with bold headline, long detailed article and historic PHOTOGRAPHS announcing the New York Yankees have fired legendary manager CASEY STENGEL after 12 years at the helm, AFTER winning 10 pennants and seven (7) WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS!!

After losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1960 World Series after a ninth-inning game-winning home run by Bill Mazeroski, Stengel was involuntarily retired from the Yankees, because he was believed to be too old to manage. As reported in Ken Burns\' PBS documentary series, Baseball, Stengel remarked that he had been fired for turning 70, and that he would \"never make that mistake again.\" In his 1962 autobiography, Stengel wrote that he\'d gotten the sense he would have been forced out even if the Yankees had won the World Series. John Rosenberg\'s book, Baseball (1963), described the press conference where Casey announced that his \"services were no longer desired.\" Reporters implored him to say whether he was fired: \"I was told my services were no longer desired. That was their excuse; the best they\'ve got.\"

DISPLAYABLE NEW YORK YANKEES history in this 1961 newspaper!! CASEY STENGEL FIRED as manager for being \"too old to manage.\"

Stengel\'s success in Oakland caught the attention of the New York Yankees, who were looking for a new manager. Shortly after the PCL season, Stengel was hired as manager of the Yankees for 1949 by George Weiss, an old friend of Stengel\'s. Upon taking over, Stengel realized he finally had a chance for success at the major league level. He made this observation about his new squad: \"There is less wrong with this team than any team I have ever managed.\"

There was considerable skepticism about Stengel\'s hiring at first, given his poor record during his earlier stints in Brooklyn and Boston. However, he and the Yankees proceeded to win record numbers of championships. Stengel became the only man to manage a team to five consecutive World Series championships (1949–1953). After the streak ended with the Yankees failing to win the American League pennant in 1954, Stengel and the Yanks continued their dominance, going on to win two more World Championships (1956 and 1958), and five more American League pennants (1955–1958, 1960). As manager of the Yankees, Stengel gained a reputation as one of the game\'s sharpest tacticians: he platooned left and right-handed hitters extensively (which had become a lost art by the late 1940s), was keen to bring in situational pitchers as evidenced in Game 7 of the 1952 World Series with Bob Kuzava to retire the Dodgers with bases loaded in the 7th, and sometimes pinch hit for his starting pitcher in early innings if he felt a timely hit would break the game open.

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