After high school he signed with the local American Association ... It was with younger players, such as Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford and Billy Martin, that Stengel had his greatest successes.
Dan has written 41 books and more than 25,000 articles about baseball. The arrival of the ... Years later, volatile Billy Martin had a record five terms as manager of the Yankees, whose owner ...
He won't be voted in to the Hall of Fame as a player, but if Cooperstown ever adds a wing for baseball's most colorful ... goaded Yankees second baseman Billy Martin into a fight and then brawled ...
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 ...
In a postseason that has seen some once-ancient rivalries find new exuberance, the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers ...
For Art Schallock, the World Series conjures up memories of his experiences with the Yankees in the 1950s when he was a ...
In the beginning, the World Series matchup of the Dodgers against the Yankees was a kind of charming intra-city showdown of ...
Here’s a look at the top storylines: Star-studded affair A dream matchup for Major League Baseball pits some ... Tommy ...
Between here and Out There they look at the money the Yankees spend on players and the money the Dodgers spend on players and see this being the baseball ... and Billy Martin and the Bronx Zoo ...
If you’re romantic, or poetic when it comes to baseball and not affected by dislike ... with legendary battles involving teammates, his manager Billy Martin, owner George Steinbrenner.
A dream matchup for Major League Baseball pits some of the sport ... featured characters like Reggie Jackson, Tommy Lasorda, Billy Martin and Fernando Valenzuela. “In some ways, I’ve always ...