Billy Martin and Gene Mauch, about as opposite as the class bully is from the class nerd, are on baseball's Hall of Fame ballot for managers. Martin, who died in 1989, was quite a character. While ...
On this date in baseball history, former Texas Rangers manager Billy Martin died in a car crash in Johnson City, New York. Martin was 61 when the car accident occurred on Dec. 25, 1989. Martin was the ...
Pitcher Jim Perry, after 10 seasons with the Minnesota Twins, was traded to the Detroit Tigers back in 1973 all because manager Billy Martin liked his car. The fiery Martin, who had previously managed ...
New York, September, 1955: USAREUR baseball most valuable player Ray Rosenbaum, right, and his USAFE counterpart, George Morgan, meet New York Yankees second baseman Billy Martin before a World Series ...
Billy Bean, a former baseball player who came out as gay after retiring and then dedicated his life to inclusion, died this week. Before his death at age 60, Bean was an executive for Major League ...
Bean revealed in 2023 that he had been diagnosed with leukemia AP Photo Billy Bean has died at the age of 60. In 1999, the former baseball player — whose teams included the Detroit Tigers, the Los ...
As an outfielder, he hid his sexual identity from his teammates for nearly a decade before retiring and becoming a force for inclusion in the organization. By Alex Williams Billy Bean, an all-hustle ...
Billy Bean, a special adviser to commissioner Rob Manfred and MLB's senior vice president for diversity, equality, and inclusion, has died after a yearlong fight with acute myeloid leukemia, the ...
NEW YORK — Billy Bean, who became the second former Major League Baseball player to come out as gay in 1999 before becoming the sport’s senior vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, has ...