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

by Dale Tafoya

Book Overview

Named a Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors Digest

In the early 1970s, the Oakland Athletics became only the second team in major-league baseball history to win three consecutive World Series championships. But as the decade came to a close, the A's were in free fall, having lost 108 games in 1979 while drawing just 307,000 fans. Free agency had decimated the A's, and the team's colorful owner, Charlie Finley, was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149307119X
• ISBN13: 9781493071197
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.4"