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- Jan. 08, 1990: Died:Billy Martin
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 08, 1990 When Tyrants Fall
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 68
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- <p> DIED. Billy Martin, 61, scrappy bantam who helped lead the
- New York Yankees to four World Series championships in the
- 1950s as a hot-hitting and fielding second baseman and in 1977
- as a tactically shrewd manager; of injuries suffered when his
- pickup truck, driven by a friend who was charged with drunken
- driving, skidded off an icy road; in Johnson City, N.Y.
- Notorious for his barroom brawls, Martin was fired as Yankee
- helmsman four times by team owner George Steinbrenner, and was
- forced to resign once after remarking about slugger Reggie
- Jackson and Steinbrenner, "One's a born liar, and the other's
- convicted"--a reference to the boss's guilty plea for illegal
- contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign.
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