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Billy Martin: Mickey Mantle
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A scrappy ballplayer, Billy Martin starred in several World Series for the New York Yankees, but was eventually traded because he was a bad influence on Mickey Mantle. He won four World Series with the Yankees as a player and another as manager. In several managerial stints with the Yankees, Martin posted a .591 winning percentage but was still fired five times by George Steinbrenner. He is the only manager to lead four teams to the post-season.
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An emotional tribute to Billy Martin -- a five-time manager of the New York Yankees in the 1970s and '80s -- this program combines game clips and on-camera interviews, including one with Martin recorded shortly before his untimely death in 1989. Footage features an all-star lineup of Major League Baseball personalities, including Mickey Mantle, George Steinbrenner, Rickey Henderson, Whitey Ford, Willie Randolph and Rod Carew.
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As a player, Martin distinguished himself mostly for an on-field truculence that won him nicknames like "The Brat" and "Billy the Kid" and an off-field penchant for late-night carousing, usually with Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford in tow. But during Martin's tenure on the team, the Yankees won. The only season between 1950 and 1957 they failed to take the American League pennant was 1954, when Martin was serving in the military.
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