Legendary baseball manager Casey Stengel worked with such greats as Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle; he led the New York Yankees to a record-breaking TEN pennants and SEVEN World Series in twelve years; he invented platooning, a way to use players that revolutionized the game; he was a prankster who became famous for sayings like Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height. The brains behind any baseball team is its manager . . . and here s a picture-book biography about the best, most beloved and entertaining manager in history! "A first-rate picture book for baseball fans."" ""Booklist,"" Starred"""

 

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Schwartz & Wade Books .

Barry Blitt's illustrations have appeared on more than eighty New Yorker covers and have also graced the pages of The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly . He is the illustrator of Once Upon a Time, the End (Asleep in 60 Seconds) by Geoffrey Koske and The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn by Robert Burleigh, as well as other picture books. He lives in Roxbury, Connecticut. Jonah Winter is the author of Barack , Dizzy , Diego , and Atheneum's own Sonia Sotomayor , and Roberto Clemente , to name a few. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.