Weaver, the Orioles' irascible, chain-smoking, umpire-baiting manager who led the team to four American League pennants and the 1970 world championship in his 17 years here, died Friday night while on an Orioles-themed cruise. |
| Earl Weaver, 2011 Wikipedia |
By Peter Schmuck and Mike KlingamanThe Baltimore Sun
January 19, 2013, 8:00 a.m.
Earl Weaver penned his own epitaph.
"On my tombstone just write, ‘The sorest loser that ever lived,’ " he once said.
Weaver, the Orioles’ irascible, chain-smoking, umpire-baiting manager who led the team to four American Leaguepennants and the 1970 world championship in his 17 years here, died Friday night while on an Orioles-themed cruise.
The Hall of Famer was 82.
He piloted the Orioles from 1968 to 1982, and in 1985-86, earning nicknames like "the little genius" and "the Earl of Baltimore." Weaver’s teams won 1,480 games and lost 1,060, and his lifetime winning percentage (.583) ranks ninth all-time and fifth among managers in the modern era who managed 10 years or more. Five times, Baltimore won at least 100 games for Weaver, who stood 5-feet-7 but was a legend to his players.
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