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...Oakland, Calif...
...incredible that baseball's Wild Bill Martin of the Oakland A's [May 11] keeps winning. It is even more astounding that he is everyone's hero. The only explanation for this pale wrinkled fighter having so many fans is that he has managed almost every team in the league. He captured me when he gave new birth to my Minnesota Twins...
...true that Billy Martin has proved to be one of the best managers in baseball by producing winners in Minnesota, Detroit, Texas, New York and now Oakland. However, the supreme test of his managerial mettle still lies ahead of him: the challenge of making a winner of the Chicago Cubs...
...people out alone and brought them back alone. The process caused surreal dislocations: one day in a firefight in I Corps, the next day standing on the American tarmac somewhere, as if nothing had happened. One veteran remembers the awful solitude of homecoming: "They let us off on the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge. I had to hitchhike to the San Francisco airport because of a transit strike." The Americans who fought in Viet Nam responded when their country asked them to give up their freedom and possibly their lives to do violence in the name of something...
...wanted was a big league job. He didn't do anything unusual." ...Now that Vancouver manager Ed Nottle is in the news again for skippering his team after being ejected by wearing the costume of the local mascot, a conversation he had with a fan while managing Oakland's West Haven affiliate is worth recalling. The youngster called out to Nottle, who wears number one. "Are you Billy Martin?" When Nottle replied in the negative, the fan asked. "Do you know Billy Martin?" Nottle replied, "I thought I knew Billy Martin. I thought he was my friend...