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S.I. Donovan: Feisty Weaver holds court on the art of the ejection

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“Bobby, I was surprised he had that many ejections. To me, Cox is kind of cool headed, not like [Lou] Piniella or Billy [Martin] or myself. Or ... I don’t know if you remember Ralph Houk,” Weaver, now 76, told me the other day from his home in Florida. “I didn’t think Bobby was the excitable type. I guess I was wrong.”

...Weaver recalled a few times when he’d get on the umpires simply because his players, who watched his antics alternately with glee and disgust, demanded it. Those didn’t end very well, either.

“I know, when Gaylord [Perry] pitched against us, for crying out loud, everybody on the bench would be saying ‘Earl, he’s throwing a spitter. Earl, he’s throwing a spitter,’” Weaver remembers with a chuckle. “You tell the ump two or three times, the umpires don’t want to hear no more of it. But you got to say something.”

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1. Jose Canusee Posted: May 31, 2007 at 06:38 PM (#2386391)

"during an 18-year managerial career in which he won more than 2,500 games, four American League pennants and the 1970 World Series."

Sometimes in BBRef the columns don't line up, but Donovan and his editors should have done a double-take when it's obviously over 100 wins a year. He actually should have written "Managed more than 2,500 games" (2541, of which the O's won a good 1480 of them during the regular season).

2. tfbg9 Posted: May 31, 2007 at 06:46 PM (#2386397)

I love Earl Weaver. My all time favorite manager.

3. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: May 31, 2007 at 06:58 PM (#2386412)

I recall that the umps really hated Weaver. I don't blame them. There's no call for riding the ump the whole game every night. Perhaps he cost his teams games with that crap.

4. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo)

Posted: May 31, 2007 at 07:14 PM (#2386432)

There's no call for riding the ump the whole game every night. Perhaps he cost his teams games with that crap.

Cox does that too but his pitchers got the extra-wide strike zone for a lot of years.

5. Dag Nabbit and his imaginary friends Posted: May 31, 2007 at 07:14 PM (#2386434)

Sometimes in BBRef the columns don't line up, but Donovan and his editors should have done a double-take when it's obviously over 100 wins a year.

It's almost 140 wins a year.

Perhaps he cost his teams games with that crap.

Perhaps the writer meant to say Weaver should've won more than 2500 games.

6. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: May 31, 2007 at 07:24 PM (#2386446)

Sometimes in BBRef the columns don't line up, but Donovan and his editors should have done a double-take

as Herb Score once said "he's 14 for 29; I'm not good at math, but even I know that's over .500"

7. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: May 31, 2007 at 08:06 PM (#2386487)

Stupid question here, but does McGraw's total include ejections as a player?

8. Dag Nabbit and his imaginary friends Posted: May 31, 2007 at 08:07 PM (#2386488)

Yes, I believe they do, Vlad.

9. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: May 31, 2007 at 09:40 PM (#2386552)

I love Earl Weaver. My all time favorite manager.

Same here.

10. Kiko Sakata

Posted: May 31, 2007 at 09:53 PM (#2386565)

“I know, when Gaylord [Perry] pitched against us, for crying out loud, everybody on the bench would be saying ‘Earl, he’s throwing a spitter. Earl, he’s throwing a spitter,’” Weaver remembers with a chuckle. “You tell the ump two or three times, the umpires don’t want to hear no more of it. But you got to say something.”

The first MLB game I ever went to was Gaylord Perry pitching against an Earl Weaver managed team. Had the spitter working that day: 9 IP, 0 runs on 4 hits, 3 walks, 9 Ks.

And I agree with comments #2 and #9: Earl's always been my favorite manager, too.

11. Repoz

Posted: May 31, 2007 at 10:16 PM (#2386580)

Back in our old box-on-wall true-life stickball league...managers had to bat (and this is before I picked up drinking as a lifesport!) and I always selected Earl Weaver.

Naturally, I had to bat on my knees which screwed up my strike zone...and, boy howdy, was it ever tough to jump back from one-finger Spaldeen sliders at your head!

12. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: June 01, 2007 at 01:29 PM (#2387206)

Cox does that too but his pitchers got the extra-wide strike zone for a lot of years.

From what I gather, there's a difference between what Cox does and what Weaver did.

13. Yeaarrgghhhh Posted: June 01, 2007 at 01:40 PM (#2387217)

Weaver is 9th all time in winning % and 7th all time in wins over .500. Criticizing him for yelling at umps is a little like criticizing Randy Johnson for not being a better fielder.

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