Yankees and Mets icon Mel Stottlemyre dead at 77

Mel Stottlemyre, who was an All-Star pitcher for the Yankees before winning World Series titles as a pitching coach with both the Yankees and Mets, died Sunday at 77. Stottlemyre battled multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow, for two decades. “I am sorry to hear of Mel’s passing,” Joe Torre, the manager during…