Casey Stengel: A Splendid Baseball Life

by Richard Bak

Looks at the professional career of this colorful personality, examining his early years as a player, his success managing the Yankees, and his last years in the sport when he led the Mets to three straight last-place finishes

Genres: Baseball

198 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1996

About the author

RICHARD BAK is a Detroit-based journalist and the author of twenty-five books, including 'Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire' and 'Peach: Ty Cobb in His Time and Ours.' He has received three ForeWord magazine Book-of-the-Year awards, the Stuart D. and Vernice M. Gross Prize for Literature, and two Emmys for his work as writer and coproducer of "Stranded at the Corner," a feature-length documentary about the fight to save Detroit's Tiger Stadium.