Billy Martin died two years after the invention of 24-hour sports radio and two years before the World Wide Web was born, thus never living to see whether he could have succeeded in the modern media ...
“Billy had to be dragged off [Clint] Courtney, flailing and thrashing like a madman,” writes Bill Pennington in Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius, his new biography of the fiery baseball player ...
Bill Pennington was often asked, during the 30 months he spent working on his Billy Martin biography, how he had come up with the idea. Pennington said he always had the idea; he just wasn’t aware of ...
It was exhilarating. It was chaotic. It was unlike anything we’ve seen since. The Texas tenure of the peripatetic managerial force Billy Martin came to both a shocking and predictable end 50 years ago ...
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, ESPN launched “SportsCentury,” a highly successful series featuring documentaries of the important sports figures of the 20th century. The biggest stars — Babe Ruth, ...
Reggie Jackson spoke with Bob Costas for a documentary that will air on the MLB Network on Monday and during that conversation he spoke of his former manager Billy Martin. He didn’t speak well of him: ...
Side Streets: Billy Martin, '53 World Series MVP, was just another Fort Carson GI a few months later
Baseball's spring training is underway, and that news had fan David Raith recalling how legendary New York Yankees second baseman Billy Martin spent his spring 60 years ago: coaching, playing ball and ...
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