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Casey Stengel:  Address to Congress, July 9, 1958

            Interviewer:  I was asking you, sir, why it is that baseball wants this bill passed.

            Casey Stengel:  I would say I wouldn’t know but I would say the reason why they’d want it passed is to keep baseball going as the highest baseball sport that has gone into baseball and from the baseball angle.  I am not going to speak of any other sport.  I am not in here to argue about other sports.  I’m in the baseball business.  It’s been run cleaner than any baseball business that was ever put out in the hundred years at the present time.

            Interviewer:  Mr. Mantel, do you have any observations with reference to the applicability of the anti-trust laws to baseball?

            Mickey Mantel:  My views are just about the same as Casey’s.

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