There’s no mention of it on his Hall of Fame plaque, but Leo Durocher once allowed a talking horse to take batting practice against Sandy Koufax at Dodger Stadium. Nor does it mention the time that ...

Paul Dickson’s first baseball biography was about Bill Veeck, one of the most interesting characters in the sport’s history. He’s taken an even bigger challenge in his second such book. It’s not easy ...

Editor's note: This is the second article in a series profiling members of the Western Mass. Baseball Hall of Fame's Class of 2016. Only 23 major league managers have made it to the Baseball Hall of ...

Leo Durocher, a leading and controverial baseball figure for more than a half-century, a man who enriched the American lexicon with his dictum, ”Nice guys finish last,” died of natural causes Monday ...

New York Giants manager Leo Durocher, right, has a big hug for his managerial rival, Casey Stengel of the New York Yankees before the opening game of the 1951 World Series at Yankee Stadium. Steven V.

These days, if a fan storms the field, they do so at their own risk. However, in bygone days, that was not always the case. That was the situation when New York Giants manager Leo Durocher was charged ...

Paul Dickson is the Washington area’s most prolific and versatile historian of major figures and events ranging from the space program to politics to baseball. In this multilayered biography of big ...

CASEY STENGEL: Baseball’s Greatest Character, by Marty Appel. Doubleday, 410 pp., $27.95. LEO DUROCHER: Baseball’s Prodigal Son, by Paul Dickson. Bloomsbury, 357 pp., $28. Longtime New Yorkers and ...

In the land beyond the Brooklyn Bridge, where 2,800,000 real human beings live among baby carriages, delicatessens, and streets of all-alike houses, spring was beginning to stir. Robins and forsythia ...