Earl Weaver set the standard as an ingenious strategist with an astute ability to extract the full measure of talent that any given player had to offer. Raymond Daniel Burke, a Baltimore native ...

When Earl Weaver died in January 2013 ... Cal Ripken Jr., Weaver’s family and former umpires who ejected the manager. Before the first chapter begins, the famous picture of Weaver throwing ...

Earl Weaver argues with an umpire ... was a cantankerous throwback who theatrically harried umpires and routinely got tossed from games, all on the way to four World Series appearances (including ...

Earl Weaver charmed Baltimore with tirades and lots of winning. John W. Miller’s “The Last Manager” is a biography of the fiery Orioles skipper who was ahead of his time as a strategist ...

Watch: Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo 'ejects' umpires during incredible meltdown. By Eric Smithling ... While it's no Earl Weaver, we applaud Lovullo for his creativity.

Baseball fans too young to remember the Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver (1930-2013) are of two minds about the man. It all depends on whether they like baseball for the stories or for the ...

THE LAST MANAGER: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball | By John W. Miller | Avid Reader Press | 331 pp. | $30 A correction was made on Feb. 24, 2025 ...

In the spring of 1952, a baby-faced 21-year-old prospect named Earl Weaver arrived at training camp for the St. Louis Cardinals in St. Petersburg, Fla. A line-drive hitter who brought crowds to ...

In a biography of Weaver published last month, journalist John W. Miller seeks to answer that very question. The publisher, Simon & Schuster, provided me a copy of The Last Manager: How Earl ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — When Earl Weaver died in January 2013, John W. Miller was covering the steel industry for the Wall Street Journal. But someone on the sports desk knew Miller was a baseball ...