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1989: Billy Martin dies at the age of 61 after spending Christmas Day drinking at a local bar. Martin and a close friend Bill Reedy were heading home when his truck ran off the road and rolled into a drainage culvert at the edge of the five-time manager of the New York Yankees manager’s home. Both men were drunk and not wearing a seatbelt.

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