At a memorial service for Roger Craig, a writer recalls time spent with a player, coach and manager who connected generations of baseball history. By Scott Miller Reporting from Ramona, Calif. On ...

Craig also found success in San Francisco, where he turned the 1987 Giants into a playoff team two years after a 100-loss season. Two years later, it won the NL pennant for the first time since 1962.

To most in baseball, Roger Craig is remembered as a manager of the San Francisco Giants, the pitching coach of the 1984 World Series champion Detroit Tigers and a 20-game loser as an original ...

Roger Craig, who won three World Series titles as a pitcher and then, as a coach and manager, championed the split-finger baseball, a nearly unhittable pitch that seemed to tumble off a cliff just ...

Craig's first job as a big league manager came with the Padres in 1978. He guided them to a 15-win improvement from the previous year and the first winning record in team history at 84-78. But he ...

Craig died Sunday at age 93 at his longtime home in San Diego County, Calif. His pitching professorship in Detroit baseball lore was tied more to the split-finger fastball, and to then-ace Jack ...

Roger Craig, who served as pitching coach on the Detroit Tigers’ 1984 World Series championship team, passed away at the age of 93. The news was announced by the San Francisco Giants on Sunday.