Former Yankees pitcher and MLB pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was compassionate, loyal and proud of his Washington state roots.

Mel Stottlemyre died Sunday at age 77 after battling multiple myeloma, the blood cancer, for more than a quarter of his life. Doctors first detected the disease during that frenzied stretch in ...

Mel Stottlemyre, the lonely ace of the Yankee pitching staffs in the 1965-71 pre-George Steinbrenner lean years who then went on to an equally distinguished career as one of the pre-eminent ...

Mel Stottlemyre, a midseason call-up who helped pitch the Yankees into the 1964 World Series and who later was the pitching coach for world championship teams in both The Bronx and Flushing, died ...

Mel Stottlemyre, an All-Star pitcher and one of baseball's top pitching coaches for two decades, died at the age of 77 after a long battle with bone marrow cancer, ...

Mel Stottlemyre is a fixture in New York sports, also serving as a pitching coach with the Mets as well as the Yankees. If they get there it would be the perfect time for the Yankees to recognize ...

Mel Stottlemyre poses for photographs with a plaque he was awarded during opening ceremonies for the Old-Timers' Day baseball game Saturday, June 20, 2015, at Yankee Stadium in New York.

When Mel Stottlemyre Jr., the Mariners’ first-year pitching coach, ponders what his father has done with his life, it’s with a similar glow, one of pride, admiration and deep love.

Mel Stottlemyre, a longtime Yankees pitcher and big league pitching coach, died Sunday following a long battle with bone marrow cancer. He was 77.

Mel Stottlemyre, who pitched for the New York Yankees for 11 seasons and won five World Series titles as a pitching coach for the Yankees and the Mets, died Sunday in Seattle after battling cancer ...