What I miss when I’m away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.
Alfred Manuel Martin Jr Quotes
I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest.
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| Birth: | 16th May, 1928 |
| Death: | 25th December, 1989 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Baseball Player |
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Alfred Manuel Martin, Jr. was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. He is best known as the manager of the New York Yankees, a position he held five different times. As Yankees manager, he led the team to consecutive American League pennants in 1976 and 1977 the Yankees were swept in the 1976 World Series by the Cincinnati Reds but triumphed over the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games in the 1977 World Series. He also had notable managerial tenures with several other AL squads, leading four of them to division championships. Martin was working as a special consultant to George Steinbrenner when he was killed in a low speed, single vehicle collision during an ice storm at the end of the driveway to his farm in Port Crane, north of Binghamton, New York, on Christmas Day 1989.
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