Billy Martin : : Baseball's Flawed Genius
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"Martin is a story of contrasts. He was the clutch second baseman for the dominant New York Yankees of the 1950s. He then spent sixteen seasons managing in the big leagues, and is considered ... to have been a true baseball genius, a field manager without peer. Yet he's remembered more for his habit of kicking dirt on umpires, for being hired and fired by George Steinbrenner five times, and for his rabble rousing and public brawls ... Pennington finally erases the caricature of Martin, drawing on exhaustive interviews with friends, family, teammates, and countless adversaries [and painting] an indelible portrait of a man who never backed down for the game he loved"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: xiii, 530 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780544022096
0544022092
SUBJECTS
Martin, Billy, -- 1928-1989.
New York Yankees (Baseball team) -- History.
Baseball managers -- New York -- Biography.
Baseball players -- New York -- Biography.