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The Ballad of Billy & George; The Tempestuous Baseball Marriage of Billy Martin

The Ballad of Billy & George; The Tempestuous Baseball Marriage of Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner Hardcover - 2008

by Phil Pepe

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Connecticut: Lyons Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Gift inscription on front free end-paper. First edition. Hardcover. 245 pp (with appendix, bibliography, and index). Chronicle of the on-again off-again partnership between the two sports moguls. When Yankees owner Steinbrenner hired Martin to manage the team, they immediately won two pennants in the 1977 World Series, then spent years feuding and reuniting.
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Phil Pepe has covered sports in New York for more than five decades. He was the Yankees beat writer for the "New York World Telegram & Sun" from 1961-64, and for the "New York Daily News" from 1971-84. He is the author of more than 40 books, including "My Favorite Summer: 1956" with Mickey Mantle (Doubleday), which reached No. 7 on the "New York Times" bestseller list; "BillyBall" with Billy Martin (Doubleday); and "Talkin' Baseball: An Oral History of Baseball in the 1970s "(Ballantine).