Lost Baseball History Rediscovered: CASEY STENGEL's Unheard Speech at 1952 New York Yankees Dinner

GLENDALE, Calif. - May 26, 2015 - PRLog -- We are pleased to offer what we feel is a true National Treasure: Charles "Casey" Stengel: New York Yankees Manager 1949-1960, 8-time World Champion, Member Baseball Hall Of Fame, Major League Baseball All-Time Team...His Full Speech, delivered at a 1952 New York Yankees Private Dinner.

WHAT AN AMAZING, IMPOSSIBLY RARE PIECE OF BASEBALL HISTORY!! The "Greatest Manager Of All Time" entertaining, enlightening and encouraging a group of players...complete with all the lovable humor, unbridled enthusiasm and rapid-fire genius the World has come to expect from "The Old Perfessor"!

More than any other Stengel item we have encountered, this speech gives us a real insight into his intelligence and wit as an orator, the depth of his baseball knowledge and his dedication to the game and to his players.

NOTE TO MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT PROFESSIONALS: The sound quality of these recordings is most assuredly of a caliber that would translate to their being used as the centerpiece of a documentary or some other form of special programming. Our video was done on a portable turntable with a high-quality needle but with smaller speakers...so when these are played on a high-end audio system the sound quality would be better than what you see here.

SOME OF THE TOPICS HE COVERS:

- (Introduction, applause, Casey joking)

- Purpose of these dinner events

- Anybody that played for the Yankees we’re still proud of them

- Always somebody around Yankees office that remembers what Gehrig & Ruth did for the club

- Success has to start from the top of the organization

- We started a school (to help the younger players)

- Bringing Gil McDougald forward, description of his skills

- Credits the scout who signed McDougald

- Rise of Tom Morgan, improvement as a result of Yankees’ school

- Encouraging young players on their chances to advance in the club

- Jumping notches (divisions), more rapid advancement by the Yankees in past 3 years

- Club was governed a lot by DiMaggio, Henrich and Keller in past

- When Johnny Lindell & older players moved on other players knew they had to follow through

- Work ethic and teammate pressure to perform

- Players brought up to conduct themselves like a Yankee

- We have splendid coaching and we put in a new way

- Rundown of various coaches’ names and their duties

- You can’t play a line of bull, you gotta go out and do it

- If you can make the Yankees you’re sure to stay in the big leagues

- In years past you never had the instruction you’re getting nowadays

- Why the Yankees are what they are today

- Rise of Eddie Lopat and Tommy Morgan, pitchers

- Legacy of various Yankees managers

- Advice to hitters how to approach the game

- Role of coaches for young players

- His own early career as player at Kankakee, IL; strategies he invented

- Anecdotes about his time as manager of Brooklyn Dodgers

- What It takes to be a Yankee player and teammate

ONLY KNOWN COPY: From everything we have been able to ascertain, we believe this to be an only copy, quite probably never before heard in public. We have conducted extensive searches of major search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, AOL and others)...as well as The Smithsonian, The US Copyright Office, The New York Public Library and The National Archives...all of which turned up no mention or trace of this recording in any known archive nor out in the marketplace.

It is our belief the records have been in the same home since new, stored securely away. When discovered they looked quite untouched.

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