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...Oakland 20, Seattle...
...string of losses hurt those hopes, and Williams was shown the door. Oddly enough, even he had been tickled by the icy ringer of Steinbrenner. Williams was offered the post of Yankee manager after Houk departed, but he was then guiding the Oakland A's, and Owner Charles O. Finley refused to release him from his contract. Virdon was hired in his stead. If Steinbrenner proceeds normally, Williams should be an ex-Yankee manager by the end of the 1983 season.-B.J. Phillips
...Martin called Steinbrenner a convicted liar. Lemon took the Yankees to the World Series championship that year but in one of the game's strangest turnarounds, was himself ousted in June of 1979-in favor of Martin. Martin lasted until the end of the season before departing for Oakland, then Dick Howser moved onto the hot seat. A year later, after winning the most regular-season games in baseball (103, vs. 59 losses), Howser was replaced by Michael...
...this time, Steinbrenner had forced out enough Yankee managers to create a kind of bizarre farm system for managers. Included on the roster: Ralph Houk of the Boston Red Sox, Bill Virdon of the Houston Astros, Martin in Oakland. The list was extended last month when Howser was named to replace Jim Frey at Kansas City. Frey had taken the Royals to the World Series in his rookie season, but this year the club got off to a terrible start (twelve games behind Oakland in the American League West when the strike started...
...Oakland 2, Texas...