Bud Harrelson, the shortstop on the Mets’ first two World Series teams and later the club’s manager for parts of two seasons, died early Thursday morning at a hospice home in East Northport on ...

NEW YORK — Bud Harrelson, the scrappy and sure-handed shortstop who fought Pete Rose on the field during a playoff game and helped the New York Mets win an astonishing championship in 1969 ...

(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) NEW YORK – Bud Harrelson, the scrappy and sure-handed shortstop who fought Pete Rose on the field during a playoff game and helped the New York Mets win an ...

You want to know what kind of a man Derrel McKinley “Bud” Harrelson was? Let’s go back almost exactly 50 years, to the night of Jan. 27, 1974. This was the annual dinner put on by the New ...

His name was Derrel McKinley Harrelson, but he went by “Bud,” which reflected how most fans thought of him — an amiable scrapper on a team full of them. That never was truer than in the 1973 ...

He stayed with the Mets as a coach and, briefly, manager. By Richard Goldstein Bud Harrelson, the slick-fielding shortstop who helped take the Mets to their astonishing 1969 World Series ...

They had to be separated 50 years ago. Their legacies are nearly inseparable today. Bud Harrelson and Pete Rose infamously brawled near second base at Shea Stadium on Oct. 8, 1973, during Game 3 ...

NEW YORK – Bud Harrelson, the scrappy and sure-handed shortstop who fought Pete Rose on the field during a playoff game and helped the New York Mets win an astonishing championship, died ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Bud Harrelson, the scrappy and sure-handed shortstop who fought Pete Rose on the field during a playoff game and helped the New York Mets win an astonishing championship ...