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Billy Martin brought his trademark intensity, and an aggressive, run-happy style dubbed "Billyball," to a struggling Oakland club at the start of the 1980s.
He revived the franchise and its attendance almost overnight, leading the A's to a division title in the strike-split 1981 season and making Oakland baseball fun and fierce again.
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