Athletics won twenty nine more games than the previous year but the manager killed an entire rotation on the way ...

Arrogant and abrasive, Billy Martin was at his best under ... Late in the 1947 season, Martin joined the Oakland Oaks and first met Stengel, the team's manager who was to become his chief advocate ...

Hey, this is Oakland. We’re the A’s. We can try anything. Manager Billy Martin understood that concept. He was a Berkeley boy, born and raised, and he combined that attitude with Finley’s ...

Oakland was not where we intended to go ... What’s odd is a lot of Dad and Charlie's good friends were former Yankees. Now Billy Martin (who managed the A’s from 1980-82) was an example.

What ensued was a hiatus in Oakland, where Martin perfected the ... in a one-vehicle accident near his home in Fenton, N.Y. Billy Martin was 61.