Word: martin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Billy Martin is back as manager. Lou Piniella is in the general manager's chair, and one can hardly help but wonder whether "Black Monday" will be as infamous in Yankee history as it will be in America...
While previous Martin rehirings received national news airplay, the stock market crash and attacks on Iran prevented the networks from engaging in what would have been a rather inappropriate sidelight into the vagaries of the national pastime...
...July 18, 1978, Jackson ignored Martin's instructions to bunt in a game. Jackson was suspended for five days. Martin continued to show anger at his star player and on July 23 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Martin said of Jackson and Steinbrenner: "One's a born liar; the other's convicted...
...Martin resigned in tears the next day on a hotel balcony in Kansas City, Mo., and he was replaced by Bob Lemon. But just five days later, Steinbrenner announced that Martin would return as manager...
Steinbrenner could not wait that long, and Martin returned for a second term on July 18, 1979. The Yankees, shaken by the death of Thurman Munson, were 55-41 under Martin, finishing fourth, and he was fired...