Billy Martin (1928–1989) was an American Major League Baseball second
baseman and the on-again, off-again manager of the New York Yankees.
Known first as a scrappy infielder on the championship Yankee teams of
the 1950s, he built a reputation as a manager who would initially make
bad teams good, and then be fired amid dysfunction. In each of his
stints with the Yankees, he led them to winning records before being
fired or forced to resign by team owner George Steinbrenner. Martin led
the team to consecutive American League pennants in 1976 and 1977; they
lost in the 1976 World Series but triumphed over the Los Angeles Dodgers
in 1977, Martin's only World Series championship as a manager. He was
forced to resign midway through the 1978 season, returned in 1979, and
was fired at season's end. From 1980 to 1982, he managed the Oakland
A's, earning a division title with an aggressive style of play known as
"Billyball". After the A's fired him, he managed the Yankees three more
times.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Martin>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1271:
The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Krak des Chevaliers to
the army of the Mamluk sultan Baibars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers>
1740:
War of the Austrian Succession: The Royal Navy captured the
Spanish ship of the line Princesa, which was later mustered into British
service.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Princess_%281740%29>
1904:
France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale,
agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent
conflict.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entente_Cordiale>
1959:
A team of computer scientists and others met to discuss the
creation of a common business-oriented programming language that became
COBOL.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
comply:
1. To yield assent; to accord; to acquiesce, agree, consent; to adapt
oneself, to conform.
2. (archaic) To accomplish, to fulfil. [from late 16th c.]
3. (archaic) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
4. (archaic) To enfold; to embrace.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comply>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that we alone
pursue the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and
unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that
it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were
someday to disappear.
--Emil Cioran
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran>