Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Martin P. Hanson Portsmouth...
...seen him shift his position during a meeting, or shift from one meeting to another as the consensus changes." In other words, Burns takes care to move the discussion in the direction in which agreement seems to lie. The role of Burns' predecessor, William McChesney Martin, was far more passive...
Dick Young, gifted, didactic and the senior baseball writer in Manhattan, forecast the imminent firing of Billy Martin, the Yankee manager. "Billy had the world by the fine hair, and he has loused it up," Young wrote with consistent, if unappealing imagery...
Sitting in his office under the triple tiers of the stadium, Martin rehearsed the speech he intended to mouth as a response. "I'm not barring you from the clubhouse, Young, because I don't want to stop you from making a living. But don't expect me to speak to you again." Martin looked up at his audience-me -as perhaps Cicero had looked up, practicing a peroration...
Steinbrenner leads a syndicate of 19, which purchased a wreckage of a Yankee franchise from CBS in 1973. He eased out Manager Ralph Houk, hired and fired Bill Virdon, purchased perhaps $7.5 million worth of baseball talent and brought in Billy Martin, who had been a nonconforming battler on the conformist Yankees...