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 ...

In the best of worlds, Jackie Robinson’s first Major League manager would have been Leo Durocher. Durocher was, in fact, in charge of the Brooklyn Dodgers during the early spring of 1947, before ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...