Mel Allen

Mel Allen was The Voice: "his boom box of a voice" – Curt…

Johnny Lindell

John Harlan Lindell, Jr., who reinvented himself as a pitcher…

Karl Drews

One day in the mid-1930s, in the New York City borough of Staten…

Frank Colman

In the opening game of the 1947 season, Frank Colman stepped…

Bill Bevens

On October 3, 1947, Bill Bevens stood on the mound at Ebbets…

Red Corriden

John Michael “Red” Corriden, the first-base coach for the…

Billy Johnson

Called “too small for a pitcher” by his high-school coach,…

Bobby Brown

More than 19,000 players have played Major League baseball, but…

Yogi Berra

Many images come to mind when one hears the name Yogi Berra.…

Joe DiMaggio

“Baseball isn’t statistics; it’s Joe DiMaggio rounding…

Ralph Houk

Ralph Houk was the first manager to have two World Series championships…

Lonny Frey

The Cincinnati Reds of the 1930s were the National League’s…

Charlie Keller

At the baseball field in Memorial Park, in Middletown, Maryland,…

Frankie Crosetti

In 37 seasons as an infielder and third-base coach for the Yankees,…

Spud Chandler

Spurgeon Ferdinand “Spud” Chandler was a no-nonsense, take-charge…

Bucky Harris

The New York Yankees of 1946 had many of the same stars who made…

Chuck Dressen

While common wisdom dictates that baseball games are won with…

Don Johnson

“They’ve made a simple game complicated,” Don Johnson said…

Rugger Ardizoia

The steamship S.S. Colombo arrived in New York from Naples, …

Tommy Byrne

Tommy Byrne had three careers and was successful in all of them.…

Randy Gumpert

Randy Gumpert was feeling flush with confidence in the spring…

Tommy Henrich

“What do [you] think of Tommy Henrich?”“I don’t know,…

Allie Clark

What was Yankees manager Bucky Harris thinking? With his team…

Russ Hodges

People of a certain age know where they were when the Japanese…