Do today’s listless Yankees need a fiery manager like Billy Martin? Stars from the Bronx Zoo weigh in on poor start
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Ron Blomberg (left), Billy Martin Jr. (top right) and Sparky Lyle have thoughts on the Yankees being tied for the worst record in the American League after 16 games.
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When Billy Martin managed the Yankees for the first time in the mid-to-late 1970s, he’d often return home from night games to find his teenage son waiting up. Billy Joe Martin, who goes by Billy Jr., always knew that he’d have to wait a few minutes for his late-night quality time with dad to begin how long depended on if the Yankees had lost and how they had lost.
January 12, 2021
On the heels of a year in which a record seven Hall of Famers died, the baseball world couldn’t get a full week into 2021 without losing another. Tommy Lasorda, the charismatic and voluble manager who piloted the Dodgers to four National League pennants and two championships during a run of 19 full seasons (1977-95) and two partial ones, died of cardiopulmonary arrest on January 7.
The 93-year-old Lasorda had returned home earlier in the week after being hospitalized since mid-November due to a heart condition. He had been the oldest living Hall of Famer since Red Schoendienst passed away on June 6, 2018; that title now belongs to 89-year-old Willie Mays.
LOS ANGELES (AP) Tommy Lasorda, the fiery Hall of Fame manager who guided the Los Angeles Dodgers to two World Series titles and later became an ambassador
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