Wally Backman was hired Monday as manager of the Mets’Brooklyn Cyclones farm team in the New York-Penn League.
A member of the Mets’ 1986 World Series championship team, Backman was hired to manage the Arizona Diamondbacks in November 2004. He was fired four days later after The New York Times reported he had been arrested twice and had financial problems.
“I am thrilled and grateful to be coming back to the Mets’ organization,” he said in a statement. “Brooklyn is a major minor league team, and I know the borough’s fans are — like me — intensely passionate about baseball and about winning.” Continue
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