After his playing career, he worked as a White Sox color commentator alongside Harry Caray on WSNS television in 1975.

[2] Martin was born in Axton, Virginia and attended Ridgeway High School where he was a member of the baseball, football, basketball, and track and field teams.

[1] However, he was called up to the major leagues too late in the season to be eligible to play in the 1959 World Series, which the White Sox lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games.

[1] In 1965, Martin batted a career-best .261, however, he also set a major league record with 33 passed balls (after committing 24 the year before)—due, in large part, to catching knuckleball pitchers Hoyt Wilhelm and Eddie Fisher.

[4] Martin was the White Sox catcher on September 10, 1967 when Joe Horlen pitched a no-hitter over the Detroit Tigers at Comiskey Park.

In 1969 Martin, as one of two backup catchers to Jerry Grote, (the other being Duffy Dyer), played on a Mets team which shockingly won the National League East title (both leagues now had two divisions after expanding from 10 teams to 12) after trailing the Chicago Cubs by as many as 10 games in August.

The Mets went on to win the World Series in equally surprising fashion, in five games over the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles.

[1] Martin caught five Hall-of-Fame pitchers during his career; Early Wynn, Hoyt Wilhelm, Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, and Ferguson Jenkins.