Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius

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Label

Billy Martin : baseball's flawed genius

Title remainder

baseball's flawed genius

Statement of responsibility

Bill Pennington

Creator

• Pennington, Bill, 1956-

Author

• Pennington, Bill, 1956-

Subject

• Baseball managers -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• Baseball players
• Baseball players -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• Biographies
• Biography
• History
• Martin, Billy, 1928-1989
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
• New York (State) -- New York
• New York Yankees (Baseball team)
• New York Yankees (Baseball team) -- History
• SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History
• Martin, Billy, 1928-1989
• Baseball managers

Genre

• History
• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 796.357092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

GV865.M35

LC item number

P46 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• filmographies