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 ...

Christopher Meloni wasn’t sure he could manage the role of Leo Durocher in the Jackie Robinson drama “42,” opening today. For one thing, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ famously fiery skipper stood all of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exactly 75 years ago, Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher declared that “nice guys finish last.” It was a memorable quip, but was he right? How this question played out in Durocher’s career is ...

Leo Durocher lives on in baseball lore and Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations for having proclaimed, “Nice guys finish last.” In fact, Durocher’s 51-year career as a player and manager was an emphatic ...