Comparing Coaches Joe Torre & Billy Martin

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The New York Yankees have had many coaches in its baseball history and a few of them will never be forgotten. Yankees coach, Joe Torre, coaching 1996 to present, and Billy Martin coached for 3 different periods totaling 8 years, have both won The World Series while going through many ups and downs to accomplish their dreams.
Joe Torre grew up dreaming to one day win the World Series just like he watched his older brother Frank win it in the 1957 game for Milwaukee Braves. But as a seventeen year-old kid, he knew he was far from that dream. Joe was proud of his brother that he would go back to his friends bragging about how is brother was a World Series Champion and had the ring to prove it. Frank would always tease Joe by saying “I have two World Series rings. Where’s yours?” Joe could never say anything to that until his dream came true in 1996, thirty-nine years later.
As a major league player Torre went from being an MVP player to a part-time player through out the years of 1960-1977. In 1975, playing for the Mets, Torre knew it was all coming to an end, when he had the worst season on his career, batting .247. He started to think playing baseball was a job and not enjoying it anymore, like he once thought it was. The only good thing that Torre got out of that season was it eventually made him a better manager. He thought that because he was an MVP player, and because he struggled as a part-time player, he could relate to any player on his roster. It was his biggest asset as a manager. He experienced a huge range of emotions including humiliation as a player.
It all started when he was not playing in a game for the Mets, and he went into the clubhouse and started freshening up and shaving. General Manager Joe McDonald walked up to Torre and asked him to manage the Mets. One week later on May 31, 1977 the New York Mets named Joe Torre Manager. He was on the roster for 3 weeks before devoting all his time to...