Billy Ball: Billy Martin and the Resurrection of the Oakland A's - Paperback

by Dale Tafoya (Author)

There was no more polarizing manager in baseball than the hot-tempered, hard-drinking, risk-taking Billy Martin. During a time of economic uncertainty and waning baseball interest in Oakland, Billy Ball filled the stands, rejuvenated fans, and saved professional baseball in the city. Based largely on interviews with former players, team executives, and journalists, Billy Ball captures Martin's homecoming to the Bay area in 1980, his immediate embrace by Oakland fans, and the A's return to playoff baseball.

Author Biography

Dale Tafoya is author of Bash Brothers and One Season in Rocket City. Tafoya's work has appeared in the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, Chicago Tribune, Baseball Digest, Beckett Baseball Card Monthly and other noteworthy publications. Tafoya resides in the San Francisco-Bay Area.