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, 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, 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, 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 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 ...

Former New York Yankees legend Mel Stottlemyre -- who starred on the mound for the Bronx Bombers before presiding over five World Series titles as a pitching coach for the Yankees and Mets -- died ...

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 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.

Mel Stottlemyre, the Yankees’ pitching ace in their lean years of the late 1960s and early ’70s and later the longtime pitching coach for Mets and Yankees teams that won the World Series, died ...

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