Davey Johnson, Who Won World Series Twice With Baltimore as Player, Managed Mets to Title, Dies

New York Mets Manager Davey Johnson (C), holds baseball's World Series trophy on the podium after the Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox in Game 7, at Shea Stadium in New York, on Oct. 27, 1986. Ray Stubblebine/AP Photo

NEW YORK—Davey Johnson, an All-Star second baseman who won the World Series twice with the Baltimore Orioles as a player and managed the New York Mets to the title in 1986, has died. He was 82.

Longtime Mets public relations representative Jay Horwitz said Johnson’s wife, Susan, informed him of his death after a long illness. Johnson was at a hospital in Sarasota, Florida, when he died Friday, Horwitz said.