When the Hall of Fame manager of the New York Yankees, Casey Stengel, died, the great writer for the Los Angeles Times, Jim Murray, wrote, “God is certainly getting an earful tonight.”

At his grave in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, there is a plaque by the impressive marker which quotes some typical Stengelese, reading in part, “There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.”