Post by NJtoTX on Jan 14, 2019 18:05:07 GMT
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.
www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-sports-mel-stottlemyre-mets-yankees-obit-20190114-story.html
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.
www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-sports-mel-stottlemyre-mets-yankees-obit-20190114-story.html