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… ...

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 ...

the most significant of them with the New York Yankees from 1950-57, Martin excelled in the World Series, batting .333. He made a bases-loaded, game-saving shoetop catch off Brooklyn's Jackie ...

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 ...

Unwilling to gamble Billy’s fate on the high court, Maggie helped him escape in November of 1880, and the couple fled to North Carolina, where they got married in early December, and then to Tennessee ...

Medeski Martin & Wood have been taking their avant-garde act around the globe for 25 years, and from New Orleans to London, drummer Billy Martin has found time to fill hotel stationary with his ...

B efore Martin Luther King Jr. led marches, gave speeches, and peacefully fought to change the world, he was just a kid ...

Martin's run with the Twins lasted from June 1961, when the Milwaukee Braves traded him here for infielder Billy Consolo, until 1969 when he was fired after one winning season as manager.

As cancer cases continue to rise in Texas, Martin urges others to take their health seriously — and to act early. His story is proof that a single decision can make decades of difference.