Despite the Yankees' success with Martin ... Day 1989 in a one-vehicle accident near his home in Fenton, N.Y. Billy Martin was 61.
257 and knocked in 75 runs, Here clowning with Reggie Jackson, Billy Martin excelled as a player in the World Series, batting .333. Martin also managed the Yankees five times. the only time he ...
Aaron Boone might have one last season to excise the fundamental flaws that exposed the Yankees in the World Series.
Jim Piersall of the Red Sox had the sharper tongue. But the Yankees’ Billy Martin had harder punches. Baseball fans who saw Piersall give the Yanks’ second baseman a terrific “riding” from ...
We looked for these characteristics in assembling our Yankees All-George Costanza Team. Who but Billy Martin could be the manager of the Yankees All-George Costanza team? Over his 19-year ...
Yankee moment: This was the Yankees' fifth world championship over the last six years. Billy Martin, a .333 hitter in five Yankees’ World Series, batted .500 (12-for-24) in this one, with a ...
The only way Aaron Boone’s tenure as skipper could be any more uncomfortable than it’s been the last few years is to add ...
The Yankees polished off their fifth straight World Series title, still a record. A 14-strikeout effort by Carl Erskine in Game 3 was the Dodgers’ highlight. Billy Martin was at the center of it ...
Who manages the Yankees? Or the Dodgers? By the conclusion of the 1977 World Series, managers Tommy Lasorda (Dodgers) and Billy Martin (Yankees) were household names. So were the players.
The series was tied instead of a 3-1 lead for LA, and the Yankees won the next two by a combined score of 19-4 to win their second straight title. Billy Martin’s walk-off single in game six to ...
Whitey Ford was 2-0 for the Yankees. Batting stars: Snider hit .320 with four homers and seven RBIs. Hodges drove in five runs. Billy Martin led the Yankees, hitting .320 with four RBIs.
The day had gone perfectly, as far as the citizens of Brooklyn were concerned. It was the fifth of October but felt like the Fourth of July, partly because of the unseasonably muggy 85-degree day ...