Madden: Mel Stottlemyre, New York baseball legend, dies at 77
From SABR member Bill Madden at the New York Daily News on January 14, 2019:
He was a New York baseball legend – on both sides of the Triborough Bridge.
Mel Stottlemyre, the lonely ace of the Yankee pitching staffs in the 1965-71 pre-George Steinbrenner lean years who then went on to an equally distinguished career as one of the pre-eminent pitching coaches in baseball with the world champion ’86 Mets and Joe Torre’s multiple-ringed Yankee staffs, died Sunday in Seattle after a long battle with bone marrow cancer. He was 77.
A five-time All-Star and three-time 20-game winner for the Yankees and later the tutor for Doc Gooden, Ron Darling, Sid Fernandez, Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens among others, Stottlemyre was first diagnosed with multiple myeloma, for which there is no cure, in the spring of 1999, his third season as Torre’s pitching coach. He underwent an experimental treatment for the disease that included a stem-cell transplant, four months of chemotherapy, and as many as 24 pills a day, after which doctors told him there was still no way of knowing if or when the disease would come back.
Read the full article here: https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-sports-mel-stottlemyre-mets-yankees-obit-20190114-story.html
Originally published: January 14, 2019. Last Updated: January 14, 2019.