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Untitled[edit]

good charlottes billy martin also links here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.33.14.114 (talk) 06:14, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia[edit]

Apparently all trivia should be rebranded as "Honors" now a days. 63.84.231.3 21:16, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Managerial Career[edit]

Will someone please tell me the year Billy won "Manager of the Year" and for which team? I am thinking 1974 but not sure.

I have updated Billy Martin's managerial career. It likely needs some brush ups, but the information is correct.--Djramey 14:11, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've always wondered about the 1979 fight with the marshmallow salesman in Minneapolis. Was this a vendor who called on supermarkets to sell his wares, or was this some fellow who roamed around a bar like a cigarette girl or hot dog vendor shouting "Marshmallows! Get your marshmallows here!"

It was a guy who was a sales rep for a marshmellow company...--seattlehawk94 (talk) 10:44, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Seinfeld[edit]

Billy Martin's mention in the Seinfeld episode is featured twice, this seems to be redundant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trublu832 (talk • contribs) 23:35, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have merged the two references. Itsmeiam (talk) 15:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I saw this had been removed and cannot find reference as to why. There is a popular culture section now however, so I have re-added this merging to the appropriate section. --Poet Talk 18:04, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In Ocean's Thirteen[edit]

In the movie "Ocean's Thirteen," one character refers to the act of offering someone a chance to make amends as a "Billy Martin," but no information is given as to why that move is named after this Billy Martin or even if it is named after him at all. Are there any sources on this? If the expression was not really named after this Billy Martin, then perhaps the reference does not belong here. 67.81.68.38 (talk) 17:52, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Military Service 1954-55[edit]

It should be mentioned that he missed all of 1954 and most of 1955 serving in the military... if only for that fact that there is a big hole in his stat line during those seasons and curious people will likely come here to read what had happened to him.DavidRF (talk) 19:27, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

However, he was given time off from the military while he was at Fort Carson in order to play in the World Series. And the rest of the team voted him a full share, even though he hadn't been there most of the season. --Michael K Smith^Talk 13:35, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed[edit]

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Creepy full-page hidden youtube link[edit]

Wikipedians,

When I hover my mouse *anywhere* above the page, hyperlink or not, clicking takes you to a creepy YouTube video. It is as of the current revision but doesn't show up among revision differences. The YouTube link also doesn't show up in edit mode. Only if you inspect the article's actual webpage i.e. in your browser can you find the YouTube link.

I've never seen this before, someone with knowledge in the matter ought to fix it.

--OettingerCroat (talk) 08:41, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Altercations" section[edit]

I am going to remove the entire section titled "Altercations." It reads like a gossip column (example: "Martin was by all accounts a very accomplished fighter who would quickly dispatch most any opponent in a brawl"). The only source for this section links to a story - from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - on the consumer price index. This section also has a tag from 2013 so no one has tried to improve it for four years. Thus, it has to go.Browntable (talk) 19:23, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Alcohol abuse[edit]

The lede mentions notorious alcohol abuse, but there's nothing in the article about it. It should be given substance or deleted altogether. I lived in Detroit while he was with the Tigers, and no doubt he was famous for his drinking, but that's not a reliable source. 150.243.14.6 (talk) 14:26, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Lede wording[edit]

"he then built a reputation as a manager who would initially make bad teams good"
Is it just me, or does "make bad teams good" sound too informal for a FA? --Joshualouie711^talk 16:37, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Length of article[edit]

The article was already long. Every day it seems to expand by several thousand characters. I question the need for it. Some of the detail seems unneeded. Keep in mind it is a recent FA and TFA.--Wehwalt (talk) 02:40, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You hear it over and over but never outdated[edit]

You know when Billy Martin was fired, TV Networks we're ready and we're not talking just the Local news I mean when Martin was fired from any baseball team it made the NATIONAL TV News. It just dosen't get old hearing it over and over again. Its Joeysworld 14:12 18, November 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.136.5.50 (talk)