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After the end of his major league career, Martin returned to the minor leagues, serving as a player-manager with the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League in and before becoming the player-manager for the Greenville Spinners of the South Atlantic League in.

His fiery, competitive nature was still evident in July 1945 when it was reported that he had punched one of his players for not performing to his standards.

While managing the Miami Sun Sox of the Florida International League in, he was fined and suspended for the remainder of the season for choking an umpire.

In August, he made news again when he was arrested after a Sun Sox game when he went into the stands to punch a spectator in Lakeland, Florida.