Casey Stengel
He wrote "Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character" (Doubleday; 2017), a biography of colorful Hall of Fame player and manager Casey Stengel, nicknamed "The Old Perfessor". Stengel and Darryl Strawberry are the only people who have ever worn the uniforms for all four New York City teams: the Dodgers, Giants, Yankees, and Mets. He was the Yankees manager for 12 years, as they won seven World Series, and came out of retirement to manage the expansion Mets when he was 72 years old.