Sources: New York Baseball Legend Mel Stottlemyre Dead at 77
New York baseball legend Mel Stottlemyre has died, multiple sources familiar with the situation tell News 4.
The former Yankees pitching ace who went on to become a five-time MLB All-Star and five-time World Series champion, passed away Sunday in Seattle following a battle with bone marrow cancer, the Daily News reported.
He was 77 years old.
Stottlemyre played his entire career in pinstripes, pitching for the Yankees in the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. He turned to coaching in the 1980s.
His first coaching stop -- the Mets, where he coached until 1993 and won one of his five MLB championships as a coach (1986). After a brief stint with the Houston Astros, Stottlemyre returned to New York in 1996, where he was a coach with the Joe Torres-led Yankees for nearly a decade, until 2005. He won five world championships with the Bronx Bombers during their glory era -- in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000.
Born in Missouri and raised in Washington state, Stottlemyre and his wife Jean had three sons together. Two of them followed in their father's footsteps, becoming Major League Baseball pitchers. His other son, Jason, died young of leukemia.
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