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He won three pennants and a World Series as the St. Louis skipper, promoting what was called ''Whiteyball,'' combining speed, defense and pitching. Whitey Herzog, the Hall of Fame manager [...]

After winning three World Series as a player, Craig became a coach and spread the gospel of the split-fingered fastball, what one player of the time called ''the pitch of [...]

A utility player for the powerhouse Yankees of the 1960s, he later became the first Black manager at minor league baseball's highest level. Hector Lopez, the first Black manager at [...]

''Cut my veins, and I bleed Dodger blue,'' said Lasorda, who managed the club to two World Series championships in a decades-long Hall of Fame career. Tommy Lasorda, the irrepressible [...]

The longtime Dodgers manager enjoyed antics on and off the field. But his tactics propelled an underdog to a World Series title, and his vision helped expand the sport's reach. [...]

He led six big league teams with some success, but he's best remembered for questionable managerial moves in a crushing (for Boston) sixth game against the Mets. John McNamara, who [...]

A former major leaguer, he shattered a racial barrier in 1994 with the Houston Astros. Two years later, he was the Yankees' G.M. as New York began a championship run. [...]

Frank Robinson, the Hall of Fame outfielder who hit 586 home runs and became a racial pioneer as the first black manager in the major leagues, nearly three decades after [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDDave Garcia's long baseball life meandered year after year through minor-league outposts like Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Sioux City, Iowa; Oshkosh, Wis.; and Mayfield, Ky. A hard-hitting second baseman in the [...]

Gene Michael, a Yankee for nearly a half-century, rising from sure-handed shortstop to general manager and building teams that won four World Series championships, died on Thursday at his home [...]

Dallas Green, a hot-tempered former pitcher with a booming voice who managed the Philadelphia Phillies to a World Series title in 1980 but whose lack of success with the Yankees [...]

Don Zimmer, the stubby, Popeye-muscled baseball lifer with the unforgettable jowls whose passion for the game endured through more than 60 years as a player, manager, coach and adviser, died [...]

Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame manager who brought pugnacity and pragmatism to the Baltimore Orioles dugout, leading the team to five 100-win seasons, four American League pennants and the [...]

STAMFORD, Conn. -- It was 1979 and Bobby Valentine's major league career, once brimming with the dazzling promise of a first-round draft pick, had sputtered to an end almost completely [...]

Dick Williams, the hard-nosed Hall of Fame manager who achieved the rare feat of taking three different teams to the World Series, died on Thursday at his home in Las [...]

Sparky Anderson, who managed Cincinnati's powerful Big Red Machine to baseball dominance in the 1970s and became the first manager to win World Series championships in both the National and [...]

Joe L. Brown, the Pittsburgh Pirates general manager who built two World Series championship teams and five National League division winners in the 1960s and '70s, died Sunday in Albuquerque. [...]

When Ralph Houk died Wednesday at 90, his obituaries told of his two-decade career as a major league manager, notably his first three Yankees teams, beginning in 1961, that won [...]

Ralph Houk, a third-string catcher for the Yankees who went on to win three straight American League pennants and two World Series championships in his first seasons as their manager, [...]

William F. Reedy, the friend of the former New York Yankees manager Billy Martin who was convicted of drunken driving in the accident that killed Mr. Martin in 1989, died […]

Herman Franks, who managed the San Francisco Giants to four consecutive second-place finishes in the 1960s but who was also remembered in connection with an elaborate sign-stealing scheme during the […]

Hank Bauer, a bruising pipe fitter and decorated combat veteran who became an All-Star outfielder for the Yankees, playing in nine World Series, and who later managed the Baltimore Orioles […]

Al Lopez, one of baseball's most prominent managers of the 1950's and the oldest member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, died yesterday in Tampa, Fla. He was 97 and […]

Don Blasingame, the former St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants infielder who also managed two of Japan's professional baseball teams, died on Wednesday at his home in Fountain Hills, […]

Johnny Oates, who managed the Texas Rangers to three American League division titles in the 1990's, the only postseason appearances in the franchise's history, died yesterday at a hospital in […]

Charlie Fox, who was the 1971 manager of the year with the San Francisco Giants and spent a half-century in baseball as an executive, manager, coach and scout, died Monday […]

Paul Owens, the general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies' 1980 World Series championship team, died Friday. He was 79. Owens died at Underwood Hospital in Woodbury, N.J., after a lengthy […]

Wes Westrum, a superb defensive catcher for the New York Giants' pennant-winning teams of 1951 and '54 and later the manager of the Mets and the San Francisco Giants, died […]

Lou Boudreau, the Hall of Fame shortstop who both managed the 1948 Cleveland Indians and played inspired shortstop to lead them to their first American League pennant in 28 years […]

Bill Rigney, who played on the New York Giants' memorable pennant-winning team of 1951, then became the Giants' last manager at the Polo Grounds and first one in San Francisco, […]