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Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY Pete Rose, Major League Baseball's all-time hits leader who earned a lifetime ban from the sport after he gambled on Cincinnati Reds games he managed, [...]

Byline: Steve Gardner, USA TODAY Baseball Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog, who led the St. Louis Cardinals to the 1982 World Series title, has died at the age of [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Roger Craig, who won three World Series titles as a pitcher and then, as a coach and manager, championed the split-finger baseball, a nearly unhittable pitch [...]

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. [...]

Byline: Matt Crossman Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda stood in the dugout in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 1 of the 1988 World Series when the [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Matt Crossman Decades before Frank Robinson became the Washington Nationals' first manager in 2005, he had already had one of the most distinguished and trailblazing careers in baseball history. [...]

Byline: Thomas BoswellFor several days, the death of Frank Robinson had been expected. Editors called reporters to prepare appreciations. But Frank, no respecter of deadlines or demise, didn't depart on [...]

Byline: Matt CrossmanDecades before Frank Robinson became the Washington Nationals' first manager in 2005, he had already had one of the most distinguished and trailblazing careers in baseball history. He [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Scott Allen Former major league baseball player and manager Don Baylor, who won the American League MVP award in 1979, died Monday at the age of 68, the Austin [...]

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 [...]