Wally Backman out to prove polarizing baseball journey ‘is not over’ by rescuing woeful Staten Island team

Source: New York Post

The Staten Island FerryHawks are as happy to have Wally Backman as the umpires of his 10-year-old grandson’s baseball games are to be rid of him as a heckler. The last two years proved to Backman and his family that his competitive juices still are flowing. And, if the 66-year-old former Mets great is going to be managing from a dugout, he only wants to do it in New York.