(Staten Island, New York) \u2013 Wally Backman\u2019s arrival gives the Staten Island FerryHawks a jolt of baseball credibility as the club tries to turn a rough season into a second-half reset.<\/p>\n
Backman, a member of the 1986 World Series champion Mets, takes over a FerryHawks team that badly needed a new voice and a stronger identity. His reputation is built on intensity, clubhouse edge and a belief that winning culture can change quickly when players buy in.<\/p>\n
For Staten Island, the move is about more than the standings. The FerryHawks are trying to grow into a true borough attraction, and Backman\u2019s name gives longtime New York baseball fans a reason to pay attention. If he can bring in former major-league talent and make SIUH Community Park feel more alive, the club could turn a difficult start into a much more interesting summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Staten Island, New York) \u2013 Wally Backman\u2019s arrival gives the Staten Island FerryHawks a jolt of baseball credibility…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-282067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}