{"product_id":"billy-martin-book-bill-pennington-9780544022096","title":"Billy Martin","description":"Bill Pennington gives long-overdue flesh to the caricature . . . Pennington savors the dirt-kicking spectacles without losing sight of the man. \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Even now, years after his death, Billy Martin remains one of the most intriguing and charismatic figures in baseball history. And the most misunderstood. A manager who is widely considered to have been a baseball genius, Martin is remembered more for his rabble-rousing and public brawls on the field and off. He was combative and intimidating, yet endearing and beloved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBilly Martin, \u003c\/i\u003e Bill Pennington resolves these contradictions and pens the definitive story of Martin s life. From his hardscrabble youth to his days on the Yankees in the 1950s and through sixteen years of managing, Martin made sure no one ever ignored him. Drawing on exhaustive interviews and his own time covering Martin as a young sportswriter, Pennington provides an intimate, revelatory, and endlessly colorful story of a truly larger-than-life sportsman.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The hair on my forearms was standing up by the end of the fifth paragraph of this book s introduction. I knew Billy Martin. I covered Billy Martin. But I never knew him like this. Dan Shaughnessy, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eFrancona\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An exhaustive, detailed and fascinating look at a baseball genius whose biggest fight might very well have been against himself. \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Tampa Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e BIL PENINGTON is an award-winning sportswriter for the\u003ci\u003e New York Times.\u003c\/i\u003e A former syndicated columnist, Pennington was a beat writer who covered much of Billy Martin s tenure with the New York Yankees. He is a fourteen-time finalist for and six-time winner of the Associated Press Sports Editors annual writing award.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49569989427473,"sku":"GOR009726243","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49708766331153,"sku":"CIN0544022092A","price":7.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49788428419345,"sku":"CIN0544022092G","price":4.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50113220706577,"sku":"CIN0544022092VG","price":4.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51681916682513,"sku":"GOR014352353","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0544022092.jpg?v=1750783276","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/billy-martin-book-bill-pennington-9780544022096","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}