One of the most fiery members of the 1986 New York Mets title team, Wally Backman still has the same passion for the game as the 51s’ manager. “I think I’m intense,” he said. “I want to win just as ...

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 ...

Ducks manager Wally Backman took a trip back to his roots last weekend, leaving the team for two days to attend Mets Old-Timer's Day Weekend at Citi Field. Backman, who played nine seasons with the ...

Welcome to Saturday evening's game between the Buffalo Bisons and the Syracuse Chiefs. Or what I like to call "Zack Wheeler's Triple-A Debut Eve." The Mets top prospect is expected to start for the ...

All Wally Backman demands of his Brooklyn Cyclones is perfection in the fundamentals of the game, and his team — assuming the personality of its new skipper — already looks up to the challenge. The ...