Casey Stengel 1958 World Series Yankees Managers Jacket Guaranteed Genuine; Gift to Friend; Baseball History NR Start Price USD 5,500.00 Current Price USD 5,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 05, 2008 End Time Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Location Woodside, California See more about 'Casey Stengel 1958 World Series Yankees Managers Jacket' Description        Casey Stengel's Size 44 Yankee navy blue classic heavy wool 1958 World Series season-used New York Yankees Manager's Jacket ... a historic and priceless artifact of our nation's baseball heritage ... is guaranteed authentic and will be personally delivered at no charge to the winning bidder (anywhere in the lower 48 states) with supporting documents before payment is made and the transaction completed!  Guaranteed Genuine or your money back.      This is as secure an auction as eBay gets.  Best of all, your winning bid is safe as this item is guaranteed genuine or the winning bidder receives a full refund within 90 Days.      The jacket is being offered at a fraction of its open-market rare sports memorabilia value, with the hope that one day it appreciates in value on display inside a climate-controlled case at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Cooperstown where it belongs.           Say farewell to the golden era of America's National Pastime and the passing of Yankee Stadium with a relic from the Yankees' glory days of summer by owning a piece of that history, the Casey Stengel 1958 World Series Winning Season Yankees Manager's Jacket...      The jacket has signs of wear, not only from its use as a manager's jacket by Casey Stengel but also as used for years as a jacket by the late recipient of the jacket.  It was handed down to the consignee of this auction for whom we're selling the jacket.  Its entire history is documented and accompanies the jacket when transfer is completed.       There is no timely, affordable or sure-fire way to authentic the jacket prior to listing it for auction to eBay's hundreds of millions of potential bidders.  That's why we're making a very fair and offer unprecedented on eBay:  The seller will hand-deliver the jacket anywhere within the lower US states at a mutually convenience time anbd place, and only then, when the winning bidder is provided the provenance and supporting seller letter of authenticity for the Stengel Yankee Jacket, the winning bidder will settle the auction.  fter receipt of the jacket and supporting documents, and following payment -- and please note that only if the winning bidder chooses to  -- the winning bidder may at his or her expense (estimated to be $100-$200) present the jacket for authentication at any one of the following collector’s industry-known, premium-item authenticators: Heritage Sports Auctions Sotheby's SCP Auctions (Formerly Sports Cards Plus Auctions) Christie's Guernsey's Bonham's & Butterfield's Professional Sports Authenticators (PSA/DNA) Lelands Memory Lane Inc. Lyon & Turnbull Doyle New York T.Vennett-Smith Mullock's Auctions Knights      We are fully confident any of the above professional authenticators will support our claims and issue an official COA.  However, if any one of the above premium-item authenticators, on company stationary with verifiable contact information, states any doubt as to the authenticity of our claims, made herein and in person on delivery of the jacket, you, the winning bidder, shall be entitled to a full refund following 30 days (until no fewer than 90 days) from the end of the auction on Oct. 15, 2008.  Note:  If the auction is reversed under the authenticator-refund terms, the winning bidder agrees to cooperate fully as we, the seller, submit notice to eBay that both seller and buyer mutually agree not to complete the sale; that way, no eBay final value fee is required.      On receipt of the jacket, at or near your home or office anywhere in the lower 48 US states (at seller’s travel expense), we'll establish the provenance, provide a letter of provenance and a certificate of authenticity.  The seller will not entrust this priceless article of baseball history to any overnight-delivery service and shall deliver the Stengel jacket personally to the winning bidder.  Additionally, your high bid is completely safe following the close of the auction until your receipt of the Stengel jacket as the winning bidder's money is never at risk via a seller-required upfront deposit or payment in full, as nearly all other sellers on eBay require.      As the dozen high-res large-size images show (provided both with and without flash), the jacket is a relic more than half a century old.  It's dimensions are not provided (as presumably the winning bidder will not wear it to a double-header) but are available on request.  It's a size 44, as the frayed label shows.  It's faded from decades of sunlight as it was  not always stored professionally.  It belongs in the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown in New York or in a museum or prized private collection.  The dimensions of the jacket were not provided as it's not intended to be worn as clothing; however, on request, those dimensions will be provided during or following the auction.      The jacket is quite heavy, with a silk lining that runs the length of the zipper along the interior of the jacket, which has two large pockets, both leather-trimmed.  It has a leather hook line for hanging (where it hung in Yankee Stadium so long ago) and has "Yankees" sewn in cloth across its navy blue front.  It was a gift in 1960 to a close friend who collected baseball jackets, jerseys, baseballs, cards, bats, gloves and other game-used mostly Yankee and Mets baseball memorabilia.      This is a No Reserve auction with no hidden or added fees and with a starting bid amount about half of the minimum starting amount suggested by a Heritage Sports Auctions official (identified to the winning bidder with documentation) for the Heritage Sports Auction to which we were unable to consign the jacket in time for the Casey Stengel Estate Sale last September.       All names, dates and history will be identified in writing to the winning bidder.  The winning bidder is entitled to a full refund if any of the internationally recognized auction house authenticators express an opinion that the jacket isn't as claimed -- even though it was, in fact, owned and worn by Casey Stengel during much of the 1958 World Series winning New York Yankees season.    Major Stengel Family Auctions in the Past Last year both Heritage and SPC Auctions had major Casey Stengel Estate auctions, both featuring cover-stories from each auction house’s magazine.  The senior official at Heritage advised that upon authentication Heritage would offer the Stengel jacket at auction with a $15,000 reserve (I’ll identify whom to the winning bidder and provide correspondence from Heritage).  Both Heritage and SPC, as well as all the referenced authenticators, run auctions online and at their offices many times throughout the year, in case you wish to list the jacket at auction in the future.  We also acquired (to be given the winning bidder) the name and address of the Stengel Family representative whom can be contacted regarding Casey Stengel-used premium items.   Sale and Delivery Notes      The Casey Stengel Jacket shall be hand-delivered personally at seller's expense anywhere in the USA at which time buyer will receive provenance and documentation of the  seller's claims and then pay the winning bid amount via collected funds (cash or bank draft via a local bank) and then, during the following 90 days, the winning bidder may use a known auction house (see bullet list above) to authenticate the jacket and, if any doubts arise as documented on official authenticator's stationery, a full refund will be given in return for the jacket.       During this 10-day no-reserve auction, potential bidders are encouraged to ask any questions about the jacket; answers will be posted to the auction description.  At the end of the auction, no deposit is required; only an email stating where within the next 30 days, at a mutually convenient place and time, the winning bidder requests to receive, review the history and pay for the Casey Stengel Yankees 1958 World Series manager's jacket.  The seller will then travel at his expense to the winning bidder anywhere is the continental USA.  Notice to any Non-USA-based winning bidder:  You must agree to meet with the seller in the continental USA.  For self-evident security reasons, the jacket shall not be overnight-shipped as priceless articles such as this jacket have been lost or stolen in transit, whether send via FedEx, EMS, DHL, UPS or USPS Express.  Your money is never at risk and your satisfaction, as proven by the professional and industry recognized sports memorabilia authenticator of your choice (among the many listed above) is guaranteed.       Please note that as eBay requires a PayPal account be linked to this auction, we have linked a PayPal account.  However, you do not have to make a payment or deposit via PayPal following the end of this auction.  Instead, your winning bid amount is payable on receipt of the jacket in person at a place and time agreed between seller and winning bidder.       Below, courtesy of Wikipedia, is a little on the life and career (through the Yankees era) of the legendary Hall of Famer and coach of both the Yankees and the Mets (as well as a fine player himself ... Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (July 30, 1890 - September 29, 1975), nicknamed "The Old Professor", was an American baseball player and manager from the early 1910s into the 1960s. He was born in Kansas City, and was originally nicknamed "Dutch", a common nickname at that time for Americans of German ancestry. After his major league career started, he acquired the nickname "Casey", which originally came from the initials of his hometown ("K. C."), which evolved into "Casey", influenced by the wide popularity of the poem Casey at the Bat. In the 1950s, sportswriters dubbed him with yet another nickname, "The Old Perfessor", for his sharp wit and his ability to talk at length on anything baseball-related. Although his baseball career spanned a number of teams and cities, he is primarily associated with clubs in New York City. Between playing and managing, he was connected with all four of New York's major league clubs. He was the first of four men (through the 2007 season) to manage both the Yankees and the Mets. (Yogi Berra, Dallas Green, and Joe Torre are the others. Like Torre, he also managed the Braves and the Dodgers.) He ended his baseball career as the beloved manager for the expansion New York Mets, which won over the hearts of New York due to their "lovable loser" image and the unique character of their veteran leader. Stengel was athletically inclined and played various sports in grade school and high school, including baseball, football and basketball. He had no particular illusions of sports as a long-term profession, and he had aspirations of a career in dentistry. As described in his autobiography, on pages 58 and 75-76, he saved enough money from his early minor league experience in 1910-1911 to train to become a dentist. He had some problems due to the lack of left-handed instruments and the training was a struggle. Meanwhile, his minor league career picked up, as he was drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers and spent most of the 1912 season playing for the Montgomery, Alabama, club in the Southern Association. He had "a pretty good year" with Montgomery, batting .290 with a reputation as a good base stealer. He was brought up to the Dodgers late in the season, and baseball soon became his primary occupation.In 1914, he got in touch with his baseball and football coach from Kansas City, Bill Driver, who was the football and basketball coach at the University of Mississippi. Stengel coached the Ole Miss baseball team to a 13-9 record. This is where he earned the nickname " The Old Perfessor". Early career Stengel was athletically inclined and played various sports in grade school and high school, including baseball, football and basketball. He had no particular illusions of sports as a long-term profession, and he had aspirations of a career in dentistry. As described in his autobiography, on pages 58 and 75-76, he saved enough money from his early minor league experience in 1910-1911 to train to become a dentist. He had some problems due to the lack of left-handed instruments and the training was a struggle. Meanwhile, his minor league career picked up, as he was drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers and spent most of the 1912 season playing for the Montgomery, Alabama, club in the Southern Association. He had "a pretty good year" with Montgomery, batting .290 with a reputation as a good base stealer. He was brought up to the Dodgers late in the season, and baseball soon became his primary occupation.In 1914, he got in touch with his baseball and football coach from Kansas City, Bill Driver, who was the football and basketball coach at the University of Mississippi. Stengel coached the Ole Miss baseball team to a 13-9 record. This is where he earned the nickname "The Professor". Major League playing career Stengel was an outfielder on several teams in the National League beginning on September 17, 1912: the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1912-17; the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1918 and 1919; the Philadelphia Phillies in 1920 and part of 1921; the New York Giants from 1921 to 1923; and the Boston Braves in 1924 and 1925. He played in three World Series: in 1916 for the Dodgers and in 1922 and 1923 for the Giants.He threw left-handed and batted left-handed. His batting average was .284 over 14 major league seasons.He was a competent player, but by no means a superstar. On July 8, 1958, discussing his career before the United States Senate's Estes Kefauver committee on baseball's antitrust status, he made this observation: "I had many years that I was not so successful as a ballplayer, as it is a game of skill." On the other hand, he once joked: "I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice."[2]Nonetheless, he had a good World Series in a losing cause in 1923, hitting two home runs (one of which was the first World Series home run in Yankee Stadium history) to win the two games the Giants won in that Series. He was traded to the perennial second-division-dwelling Braves in the off-season, a fact which apparently stung him. Years later he made this pithy comment: "It's lucky I didn't hit 3 home runs in three games, or McGraw would have traded me to the 3-I League." In 1919, Stengel of the Pittsburgh Pirates was being taunted mercilessly by fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers, his old team. Somehow Casey got hold of a sparrow and used it to turn the crowd in his favor. With the bird tucked gently beneath his cap, Casey strutted to the plate amidst a chorus of boos and catcalls. He turned to the crowd, tipped his hat and out flew the sparrow. The jeers turned to cheers, and Casey became an instant favorite. New York YankeesStengel became better known for managing than for playing. His first managerial positions were on the Brooklyn Dodgers (1934-1936) and Boston Braves (1938-1943), where he was not very successful, never finishing better than 5th in an 8-team league. As he said in 1958, "I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there is no question I had to leave."[3]Stengel demonstrated he could be successful as a manager of a team having worthy talent. In 1944, Stengel was hired as the manager of the minor league Milwaukee Brewers, over the strenuous objections of club owner Bill Veeck (who was serving in the South Pacific with the Marines at the time, and therefore unable to prevent the hiring). Veeck was proven wrong as Stengel led the Brewers to the American Association pennant that year. In 1948 Stengel managed the Oakland Oaks to the Pacific Coast League championship. This caught the attention of the New York Yankees, who were looking for a new manager. Despite a good deal of initial skepticism in the press, Stengel was hired as the skipper of the Yankees in 1949, and finally had a chance for success at the major league level. When he took the reins of the Yankees, he made this observation: "There is less wrong with this team than any team I have ever managed." That would prove to be an understatement. He proceeded to set records for championships, becoming the only person to manage a team to five consecutive World Series championships as the late-40s, early 50s Yankees became a juggernaut. He won two additional world championships and three additional league pennants afterward. While managing the Yankees he gained a reputation as one of the game's sharpest tacticians: he platooned left and right-handed hitters extensively (which had become a lost art by the late 1940s), and sometimes pinch hit for his starting pitcher in early innings if he felt a timely hit would break the game open. Stengel was a master publicist and promoter, especially for his teams. He was a captivating raconteur and especially during the years of success with the Yankees had the New York media eating out of his hand. He became as much of a public figure as many of his star players such as Mantle. He appeared on the cover of national, non-sports, magazines such as Time Magazine. His apparently stream-of-consciousness monologues on all facets of baseball history and tactics (and anything else that took his fancy) became known as "Stengelese" to sportswriters. They also earned him the nickname "The Old Perfesser". In the spring of 1953, after the Yankees had won 4 straight World Series victories he made the following observation, which could just as easily have been made by The Perfessor's prize pupil, Yogi Berra: "If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as smart as we think we are." Although Stengel benefited from the Yankees' deep pockets and ability to sign players, he was a hands-on manager: The 1949 Yankees were riddled by injuries, and Stengel's platooning abilities played a major role in their championship run. Platooning also played a major role in the 1951 team's World Series run. With Joe DiMaggio declining rapidly and Mickey Mantle yet to become a powerhouse, the Yankees were weak offensively. Stengel, leaving his solid pitching alone, moved players in and out of the line-up, putting good hitters in the line-up in the early innings and benching them for good fielders later. The strategy worked: The Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians for the pennant in September and took the Series from the New York Giants four games to two. Aside from "Stengelese", Casey's sense of humor would be displayed in various ways. One story is repeated in Lost Ballparks (Lawrence S. Ritter, Viking Studio Books, 1992, p.35), in which Stengel plays with fans of the Chicago White Sox in 1960, the first year of Comiskey Park's "exploding scoreboard", then a novelty and an annoyance to some visiting teams. The scoreboard would light up, make noise, and shoot off fireworks whenever a Sox player would hit a home run. According to the book, on the Yankees' "first visit" to Chicago that year, Stengel and the Yankees waved some sparklers after Clete Boyer hit a home run. While the story may be generally true, Boyer did not homer in Chicago until the Yankees' second visit, a Friday night game on June 17. After losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1960 World Series after a ninth-inning game-winning home run by Bill Mazeroski from Yankee pitcher Ralph Terry, Stengel was involuntarily retired from the Yankees, because he was believed to be too old to manage. Stengel made a lot of mistakes in the 1960 series. Over the years his tactical genius kept the Yankees in many games they might have otherwise lost. During that great run of 10 pennants in 12 years from 1949-1960 the Yankees weren’t much better than many of the other good clubs in the American league, especially Cleveland, Boston and Chicago. However, in the 1960 Series, Stengel’s moves allowed a perceived inferior Pittsburgh team to win in seven games. He held Whitey Ford out until Game 3, which only allowed the league's best pitcher to pitch (and win) two games. Art Ditmar started game 1 and he lost. There has never been any logical explanation why Ford didn’t pitch Game 1. He had pitched a couple innings of relief just 3 days earlier, but it had been a week since his last starting assignment. Another “mistake” that Stengel made was pinch hitting for slick fielding but light hitting Clete Boyer early in game 1. This kind of move was typical Stengel and over the years marked his method of success. But the pinch hitter didn’t come through this time and Boyer could be seen slowly and disheartened retreating toward the dugout dragging his bat behind him. This rankled the Yankee brass who wanted to see players like Boyer developed. Young players like Kubek, Richardson and Boyer made it known they didn’t feel comfortable with Stengel and he was let go. Notice:  We don't pre-screen bidders but we reserve the right to remove and block any eBay member's bids.      Please ask before bidding.  Bid within your means.  And always honor your bid.     AuctionWebSeller™ Place a Bid!