Billy Martin never won a World Series during his three mercurial seasons as Oakland Athletics manager. But his homecoming 40 years ago helped revive a pathetically cheap and disrespected franchise ...

Pennington persuasively traces Billy's baseball genius to the luck of geography: Martin grew up near Kenney Park in West Oakland, a superb playing field where California-based baseball ...

Billy Martin, who was one of the most influential men in the history of the A’s franchise in Oakland, was born on this day in 1928. We wrote about Martin weeks ago just after East Bay author ...

Mickey Morabito has been Oakland A’s man with the travel plan for 43 years Brought over from the Yankees by Billy Martin, Morabito is MLB’s longest-serving director or travel by a whopping 15 ...

Oakland Athletics manager BIlly Martin argues with umpire Jim Evans as he pushes catcher Mike Heath aside after Chicago's Carlton Fisk was hit by a pitch in the fourth inning at the Oakland ...

The 42-year-old Martin had been hired with a two-year contract on October 2, 1971, a day after the final game of 1970; when it was announced that Tiger manager Mayo Smith would not be returning.

Billy Martin's temper gets the best of him in 1979, after he was ejected by umpire Dallas Parks. Ray Stubblebine/AP photo "I'm no fighter," Martin wrote in an article that ran in the April 26 ...

From the archives: How Oakland A’s legend Rickey Henderson was molded by ‘Billy Ball’ Former A’s manager Billy Martin was able to take ‘this raw talent and kind of mold it into maximum ...

Mickey Morabito’s career with the Oakland Athletics started with a phone call from Billy Martin, a rejection by George Steinbrenner and the first of countless nights at the Pink Pony. But no ...

Mickey Morabito, still a team official with the Oakland A's and such a Martin loyalist that he gave up a Yankees gig to join Billy with the A's, was asked this week about Howard's presence in ...