"When you start talking about firing him as manager of the New York Yankees, you might as well stab him with a knife," says former Cy Young Award winner Sparky Lyle on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury.

Arrogant and abrasive, Billy Martin was at his best under pressure - on the field. But in the clubhouse or in a bar, he became baseball's poster boy for self-destruction. A .257-hitting second ...

Jim Piersall of the Red Sox had the sharper tongue. But the Yankees’ Billy Martin had harder punches. Baseball fans who saw Piersall give the Yanks’ second baseman a terrific “riding” from ...