Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young men on other teams. It also meant that the Yankees could do cold-hearted things like let go of their veteran All-Star shortstop Phil Rizzuto as a surprise gesture on Old Timer's Day 1956 sure in the knowledge that Jerry Coleman, Gil McDougald or Billy Martin (each a star on his own) would fill the hole...
...Martin is back with the Yankees now. He manages the team. Before he could come back, however, he left as the scapegoat in the famous Copacabana incident of 1957. Some Yankees got in a brawl at a ritzy New York nightclub and Martin, the most expendable in the management's eyes, caught the rap. It was incidents like that which convinced fans the Yankees were a bunch of rich, cold stiffs. They got big salaries, the line went, World Series checks, and turned their backs on their old teammates...
Travers told the Associated Press yesterday that Martin G. Regan's decision to cooperate with the prosecution was "free from all duress and coercion." Regan has reportedly been granted immunity from prosecution to turn state's evidence...
...amount of security a guard stationed at the west entrance could provide was minimal. To increase it, we decided to put him at the entrance of Pusey," Martin said...
...Martin said, however, the decision to close the west entrance was based on staff estimates that a "relatively small" number of people had been using that entrance...