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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chuck Dressen
While common wisdom dictates that baseball games are won with…

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

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

Randy Gumpert
Randy Gumpert was feeling flush with confidence in the spring…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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