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Damn Yankees
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Alfred Manuel Martin Jr. was born on May 16, 1928, in Berkeley, California. His father was a truck driver for the city of Berkeley. Billy Martin's mother's name was Jenny. She first married Donato Pisani around 1918, by whom she had a son, Frank, nicknamed Tudo, before the marriage broke up.
Martin acquired the name "Billy" as a result of his grandmother, who never mastered English, saying bello ("beautiful") repeatedly over the baby, who learned his birth name only when a teacher used it at school. The Martin couple broke up soon after Billy was born, and Martin would have no further contact with his father until he was in his thirties.