Philadelphia Phillies prized pitching prospect Andrew Painter is healthy again. The right-hander is expected to make his long ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

Felix Mantilla, a one-time All-Star with the Boston Red Sox and World Series champion as a member ... But Mantilla's MLB career would quickly fizzle. He was traded to the Houston Astros for ...

He was the first Puerto Rican to play for the 1962 #Mets. Mantilla played in four games in the Braves' World Series victory ... #PuertoRico #Boricua #MLB Felix Mantilla QEPD 🙏🏻🕊🕊 ...

Pittsburgh Pirates coach Gene Baker became the first black manager in major league baseball history. Otherwise, it was an ...

Felix Mantilla, whose only season with the Mets came in 1962, passed away at the age of 90. He played in Major League Baseball for 11 seasons (1956-66) before calling it a career. He spent the ...

In 1956, he was called up by the Braves for the first time and spent six years with the big league club, winning a memorable seven-game World Series over ... before his MLB career was over.

Bob loved people; his presence warmed every room and he had a way of welcoming all of us into his world as if we ... Uecker spent six seasons (1962-1967) playing in the MLB. That included two ...

Mets fans want Pete Alonso to return to Queens, but one on-air commentator has issued a dire warning to both sides that a ...

Before that, he played as a backup catcher in MLB, making his major league debut in 1962 and later winning a World Series with the Cardinals in 1964. In a message on social media, the Brewers said ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2008. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...