
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…