Inside the MLB Culture Wars That Led to Joe Maddon’s Firing

By Joe Maddon,Tom Verducci How could a World Series-winning manager with 19 years of experience lose his job over a 12-game sample? Excerpted from THE BOOK OF JOE: Trying Not to Suck at Baseball & Life by Joe Maddon and Tom Verducci. Copyright © 2022 by Joe Maddon and Tom Verducci. Reprinted by permission of Twelve, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. All rights reserved. Billy Martin was fired nine times. The first time he was dismissed, in 1969 by the Twins, he was fired by appointment. One Sunday night shortly after the season, the brother of Minnesota president Calvin Griffith told Martin t…

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