Wally Backman’s former girlfriend says the ex-Mets star is a drunk who came home one night and roughed her up after accusing her of sleeping with the catcher on the minor-league team he manages, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I call Fredrik Backman from halfway across the world – he in his Stockholm apartment, me in my New York one – he says ...

Wally Backman insisted Tuesday that he resigned as manager of the New York Mets' Triple-A affiliate because of a lack of respect and repeatedly getting passed over for the major league staff. "It didn ...

Back in the 1980s, Lenny Dykstra and Wally Backman ignited the high-flying New York Mets as the 1-2 punch at the top of the batting order. They were fan favorites, nicknamed the Partners in Grime for ...

Wally Backman played nine years for the Mets in the 1980s and was the one of the last links to their 1986 World Series team in the organization. Now out of the organization — and about to be out of ...

Former Mets second-baseman Wally Backman was arrested on Long Island for allegedly shoving his girlfriend into a wall Friday morning and stopping her from calling cops, officials said. Backman, who ...

The rain stopped. The tarp was removed. Fans walked through the Bethpage Ballpark turnstiles, gleefully accepting the Wally Backman bobbleheads being offered. The longtime Mets second baseman would ...

When Fredrik Backman was 25 he decided that he wanted to be a writer. Or rather he felt that he could be a writer. So to figure out if those feelings were indicative of something like actual writing ...

Former New York Mets second baseman Wally Backman was arrested Friday morning and charged with domestic violence in Riverhead, New York. The 59-year-old minor league manager was accused Friday of ...