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Damn Yankees
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alcoholic who drank and fought publicly, and because the man for whom he worked destroyed his reputation through constant public denigrations and firings, he may never join the hallowed hall where he should rightfully be placed next to his mentor, Casey Stengel."
Of most popular significance, Mike Lupica of the “Daily News” wrote that; "Yankee fans never seemed to see him drunk, or nasty, or as Steinbrenner's toady, the way others did. They looked the other way, again and again and again. They always saw him as Billy the Kid."
Billy Martin was born on Wednesday, May 16, 1928, in Berkeley, California. Martin was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 18, 1950, with the New York Yankees.
"Now you take Ernie Lombardi who's a big man and has a big nose
and you take (Billy) Martin who's a little man and has a bigger nose. How do you figure it?" - Casey Stengel