What is Casey Stengel’s real name?
Casey Stengel was born Charles Dillon Stengel in Kansas City, Missouri (c. 1890-1975).
Stengel managed the New York Yankees from 1949 to 1960 and the Mets from 1962 to 1965.
The winning home run was hit in the bottom of the ninth at the New York Polo Grounds by the Giants’ third baseman Bobby Thomson, in the 1951 National League playoffs between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. With two men on base, Thomson’s home run changed the score from Dodgers 4, Giants…
The electric sign on 1 Times Square at 42nd Street in New York that displays headlines was installed in 1928. At that time, the building housed offices of the New York Times and was known as the Times Tower. It is now owned by several general and limited partners and runs headlines from New York…
Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America (1835, 1840) said of Americans, “If I were asked . . . to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women”.
Warren G. Harding was the first president to speak over the radio, on June 14, 1922.
The subject of the 1840s folk song “On Top of Old Smoky” is one of the peaks in the Blue Ridge Mountains, located near Asheville, North Carolina.
The granite-laden mountain called Mount Rushmore is said to be named for 19th-century New York attorney Charles E. Rushmore. Legend holds that while Rushmore was visiting the Black Hills on business related to his mining clients, he asked the name of a nearby mountain. One member of his group joked, “Why, that is Mount Rushmore,”…