Personal Life
Billy Martin was married four times and had two children, a daughter named Kelly Ann and a son named Billy Joe. His first marriage was to Lois Berndt, by whom he had his daughter and who left him in 1954. He married Gretchen Winkler in 1961, by whom he had his son, and stayed married to her until 1979 when the two divorced. He was married a third time while he was managing in Oakland, but was never faithful to his third wife and eventually married his mistress, a woman named Jill, in 1989.
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