Stengel: “Do Your Drinking in the Regular Season”
March 14, 2012
Baseballing great Ralph Kiner, as he does sometimes, joined the Mets television broadcast team yesterday for the club’s spring-training game against St. Louis.
During the bottom of third inning, the conversation turned to the 1961 1962 expansion Mets, for which Kiner was an announcer. Kiner shared a couple of anecdotes regarding that team’s manager, Casey Stengel — and, in particular, Stengel’s opinions on when a baseballer should and shouldn’t do his drinking.
Enjoy said wisdom in its rough, uncut version via the the audio player above.
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
I assume you didn’t take that advice to heart, or else you would have correctly identified the expansion Mets as the 1962 Mets.
Razor-sharp as usual, Our Father.