One reason might be that baseball produces, if not more colorful characters, then more enduringly colorful characters than any other sport. For instance, Casey Stengel and Leo Durocher have now ...

On March 24, 1947, longtime Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher confessed to playing card games within the clubhouse in a four-hour meeting with the Major League Baseball commissioner Albert ...

New York Giants manager Leo Durocher ... of his subject's place in the larger American culture. “Baseball was more than a game to Durocher — it was theater,” Dickson writes, and the same ...

Leo Durocher, a leading and controverial baseball figure for more than a half-century, a man who enriched the American lexicon with his dictum, ”Nice guys finish last,” died of natural causes ...

The Mets had a lot of help in their rise in 1969, writes Paul Dickson in “Leo Durocher: Baseball’s Prodigal Son” (Bloomsbury; $28; 357 pages). Durocher, with decades of bad blood spilt ...

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 ...

The manager of the Chicago Cubs is obviously an impostor. The 1967 season is already more than half over, and this fellow who says he is Leo (“The Lip”) Durocher, 60, has not cursed a single ...

Only 23 major league managers have made it to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., and only one of them - Leo Durocher - hails from Western Massachusetts. It's fitting, then ...