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Sat Jan 19, 2013, 12:57 PM Jan 2013

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." -Earl Weaver has passed at 82

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoweav.shtml


http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/earl-weaver-former-orioles-manager-dies-at-82/2013/01/19/d6e5c1a0-397d-11e2-a263-f0ebffed2f15_story.html




A scourge to umpires, goad to his players and a delight to fans, Earl Weaver was among the winningest managers in the history of major-league baseball. In his 17 years as chief helmsman of the Baltimore Orioles, his teams won 1,480 games, four American League championships and the 1970 World Series.

Mr. Weaver died Jan. 18 while on a cruise, the team announced. He was of 82. The cause and other details of his death were not immediately known.


“The only thing Weaver knows about a curve ball,” Oriole Hall-of-Fame pitcher Jim Palmer once said, “is that he couldn’t hit one.”

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"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." -Earl Weaver has passed at 82 (Original Post) underpants Jan 2013 OP
Great manager and a real character Faygo Kid Jan 2013 #1

Faygo Kid

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1. Great manager and a real character
Sat Jan 19, 2013, 01:09 PM
Jan 2013

And I say that as a Tigers fan who got used to being beaten by his early teams.

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