Hey, this is Oakland. We’re the A’s. We can try anything. Manager Billy Martin understood that concept. He was a Berkeley boy, born and raised, and he combined that attitude with Finley’s ...

Arrogant and abrasive, Billy Martin was at his best under ... Late in the 1947 season, Martin joined the Oakland Oaks and first met Stengel, the team's manager who was to become his chief advocate ...

What ensued was a hiatus in Oakland, where Martin perfected the ... in a one-vehicle accident near his home in Fenton, N.Y. Billy Martin was 61.