Seattle (NY Daily News) He was a New York baseball legend – on both sides of the Triborough Bridge.
(Photo: Bryan R. Smith)
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, January 13, 2019 in Seattle after a long battle with bone marrow cancer. He was 77.
