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Senin, 21 Januari 2013

Postscript: Earl Weaver, 1930-2013

Postscript: Earl Weaver, 1930-2013

"Earl Weaver stands alone as the greatest manager in the history of the Orioles organization and one of the greatest in the history of baseball," Orioles managing partner Peter Angelos said Saturday in a statement. As a manager, Weaver could be testy

The one that stopped me in my tracks: Weaver, despite being a gray-haired institution by the time I started paying attention to baseball in the late 70s, was only 56 years old when he managed his last game. As Jaffe notes, that's younger than Ned Yost

As our Paul White notes in his wide-ranging summation of Earl Weaver's legacy, the irascible Baltimore Orioles manager once said his tombstone should read, "The sorest loser that ever lived." Or, more accurately, "The sorest $%&! loser that ever lived

I had long suspected as much, but it's still nice to disinter photographic evidence that Earl Weaver was indeed powered by pop-top Schlitzes, wholesome and restorative cigarettes and UHF programming. Let us also assume that the Earl of Baltimore began

Earl Weaver managed the Baltimore Orioles from 1968 to 1982. Here's a look at his managing career from the view of a Tiger fan.

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