• Yankees family remembers Bob Watson as their ‘gentle giant’

    Yankees family remembers Bob Watson as their ‘gentle giant’

    Bob Watson and Joe Torre were teammates on the 1973 NL All-Star team and Watson played for Torre for three years in Atlanta. But it was in The Bronx where the two made history, with Watson as the general manager when Torre and the Yankees won the World Series in 1996. “All of a sudden …