Current Long Island Ducks manager Wally Backman in a 2019 photo. Backman, the former Mets second baseman and member of the 1986 World Series champions, managed the Mets' Triple-A affiliate Las Vegas ...

The Long Island Ducks and manager Wally Backman have parted ways, the Ducks announced in a statement on Friday. Backman, who won a World Series as a player with the Mets in 1986, managed the Ducks for ...

After a weeklong trial, former Met and current Long Island Ducks manager Wally Backman has been found not guilty of assaulting his girlfriend. The incident occurred last August, when prosecutors say ...

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 ...

Backman was a manger for the Mets in the minors since 2010 Triple-A Las Vegas manager Wally Backman has left the organization, Mets GM Sandy Alderson said on Monday. Backman, 56, had been a manager in ...

When spring training workouts begin next week for the independent Long Island Ducks, one former Mets second baseman will be monitoring another, excited about the possibilities. After two seasons ...

Former New York Mets second baseman Wally Backman poses during a news conference after his introduction as manager of the New York Mets’ Brooklyn Cyclones farm team in the New York-Penn League, ...

After missing the playoffs last season for the first time since 2014, the Ducks decided they needed to fundamentally change the way the roster looked and bring in as many former major-leaguers as ...

Baseball, especially winning baseball, makes strange bedfellows. Sid Bream and Wally Backman of the Pittsburgh Pirates provide a vivid example. "Sid is the chapel leader here, a strict Christian," ...

New manager Wally Backman shook hands, signed autographs and took pictures with Buffalo Bisons fans Thursday night in the Hyatt Regency just as the team planned. But Backman certainly did it all with ...