The Staten Island FerryHawks are as happy to have Wally Backman as the umpires of his 10-year-old grandson’s baseball games are to be rid of him as a heckler. The last two years proved to Backman and ...

Wally Backman insisted Tuesday that he resigned as manager of the New York Mets' Triple-A affiliate because of a lack of respect and repeatedly getting passed over for the major league staff. "It didn ...

Wally Backman’s former girlfriend says the ex-Mets star is a drunk who came home one night and roughed her up after accusing her of sleeping with the catcher on the minor-league team he manages, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I call Fredrik Backman from halfway across the world – he in his Stockholm apartment, me in my New York one – he says ...

Time may heal a lot of things, but the relationship between Wally Backman and Sandy Alderson is apparently not one of them. Backman, the 1986 World Series champion and former Mets minor league manager ...

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 11: Wally Backman attends the Annual Charity Day hosted by Cantor Fitzgerald, BGC and GFI at Cantor Fitzgerald on September 11, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Presley ...

WASHINGTON — Wally Backman just wanted a little respect. The former Mets infielder broke his silence Tuesday, a day after it was announced that the popular Backman wouldn’t return to the organization ...

The rain stopped. The tarp was removed. Fans walked through the Bethpage Ballpark turnstiles, gleefully accepting the Wally Backman bobbleheads being offered. The longtime Mets second baseman would ...

Former New York Mets second baseman Wally Backman was arrested Friday morning and charged with domestic violence in Riverhead, New York. The 59-year-old minor league manager was accused Friday of ...

In this Swedish bestseller, Ove is a lovably miserable neighborhood curmudgeon—think a cross between Up’s Carl Fredricksen and Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson—who spends his days inspecting his ...