Arrogant and abrasive, Billy Martin was at his best under pressure - on the field. But in the clubhouse or in a bar, he became baseball's poster boy for self-destruction. A .257-hitting second ...

Wild, High and Tight: The Life and Death of Billy Martin By Peter Golenbock St. Martin’s, 544 pages, $24 Billy Martin was a mess. But we already know that. I never met Billy Martin, but I rem… ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, ... So it is hardly a surprise that Bill Pennington’s sprawling new biography, “Billy Martin: Baseball’s Flawed Genius,” checks in at 530 pages.

“Billy had to be dragged off [Clint] Courtney, flailing and thrashing like a madman,” writes Bill Pennington in Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius, his new biography of the fiery baseball ...

For Billy Martin’s widow, it was a decade-long fight over the estate that was not settled until 1999. The house was eventually sold in 1998 for $250,000 after foreclosure procedures.