[DeadCelebrityAlert] Orioles Earl Weaver, 82

 

Baseball Hall of Fame manager Earl Sidney Weaver, who led the Baltimore Orioles to four pennants and a World Series title with a pugnacity toward umpires, died Saturday of an apparent heart attack at age 82, Major League Baseball said.

Dubbed "the Earl of Baltimore," Weaver managed the American League team for 17 seasons and amassed a record of 1,480 wins and 1,060 losses, including five 100-win seasons (1969-1971 and 1979-1980). He and the team won the World Series in 1970.

The tenacious Weaver was outspoken with some players as well as umpires. At the same time, he was open to innovation, using computers to analyze opposing pitchers and pioneering the introduction of radar guns to measure fastballs and other pitches.

On the matter of marching out of the dugout to give the umps a piece of his mind, Weaver said: "The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game."

Team managing partner Peter Angelos described Weaver as standing "alone as the greatest manager in the history of the Orioles organization and one of the greatest in the history of baseball."

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