Forging Genius

"Baseball insiders were stunned when Casey Stengel was named manager of the New York Yankees for 1949. His work managing the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves was long on personality but remarkably short on success. The media thought the Yankees would never be able to compete with the Red Sox or Indians with "that clown" in charge." "The quintessentially resilient Stengel endured bad breaks, learned from them, and emerged stronger for the experience. In trying to win with the star-poor Dodgers and Braves, he learned strategic techniques that would later help him win with the Yankees. Thus…