Forging Genius: The Making of Casey Stengel »

Steven Goldman writes the column “The Pinstriped Bible,” a regular Web column for the New York Yankees focused on their history, and also contributes to Yankees Magazine and www.mlb.com. He lives in East Brunswick, New Jersey.

Baseball’s greatest manager through his early struggles and big break

Acknowledgments     ix
Who Was Casey Stengel?     1
The Summer of Second Chances     7
I Will Handle This Situation in My Own Way     27
Dutch, the Left-Handed Dentist     49
Casey, Where Are Your Pants?     85
The New Riot Act     101
Out of the Trenches by Christmas     141
He Came to See Poverty     163
Getting Paid for Losing     180
Trying to Keep My Boys     190
It's a Grand World-If Only it Would Stop Raining     200
Where I'll Be a Year From Now     227
Graduation Day     244
Notes     263
Bibliography     283
Index     293
The Author     303