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Damn Yankees
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on my team if I thought it would help me win." Willie Randolph stated; "You always knew if you got to the eighth or ninth inning and you were tied or one run down, Billy would find a way to win." Falkner noted; "He wanted to win, that was all. And for the time he was in the game, everyone knew it. And he won."
Martin was married four times and had two children, a daughter named Kelly Ann and a son named Billy Joe. His first marriage was to Lois Berndt, who was the mother of Kelly Ann. She divorced him in 1955. He married Gretchen Winkler in 1961. Billy Joe was born of that marriage. They divorced in 1979. He was
married a third time, to Heather Ervolino, while he was managing in Oakland. He married his mistress, freelance photographer Jillian Guiver, in January 1988.
Martin died in an automobile accident in upstate New York on Christmas night in 1989. He was still a special consultant to Steinbrenner when he was killed in the low speed single vehicle accident. His vehicle ran into a drainage culvert near the entrance of the driveway to his farm in Port Crane, north of Binghamton, New York. He was pronounced dead at a hospital in Johnson City, New York.