A Newspaper Career Stamped by Billy Martin
Ray Hagar retires after 38 years with the Reno Gazette-Journal.
After 38 years with the Reno Gazette-Journal, reporter Ray Hagar (pictured) retired at the end of October. In an interview posted this week with friend and colleague Julia Ritchey of KUNR-FM public radio, it was hard to avoid the incident for which Hagar is infamous – getting clocked on Nov. 10, 1978 by Yankees manager Billy Martin:
“He was upset and he was drunk and just hauled off and hit me,” Hagar says. “It was 10 and a half months of hell, to be honest with you, for all the public attention it caused.”
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