Word: weaverization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Earl Weaver has never been shy, but he is retiring
...This isn't enjoyment," Earl Weaver has been insisting all season and for much of the 15 years that he has been the most durable, deranged and delightful manager in baseball. "This is just my way of making a living. It's work. It's research." He points to his three-by-five cards, his directory of probabilities and statistics. "I'm so tired of making decisions. I'm really looking forward to going home with nothing on my mind, never having to worry about some quote I might have said wrong, or some writer...
...office after a one-run victory, "shaking in my boots," he calls it. The Orioles are making their move on the American League's Eastern Division leader, Milwaukee. Jim Palmer, 36, Baltimore's preening pitcher, has won ten straight games. So Palmer is going to outlast Weaver after all. Neither man brooks any opinion but his own, and they have been legendary adversaries. "Every single gray hair I got," says Weaver, 52, "I got from Palmer." Once, when Earl was hopping mad at Palmer, Palmer chose the moment of Weaver's highest hop to say, "Earl...
Insubordination has always been rife on Weaver's teams. He and Catcher Rick Dempsey act out their disagreements by throwing shin guards. "The only thing Earl knows about pitching," onetime Ace Dave McNally declared for all time, "is that he couldn't hit it." Weaver and Mark Belanger feuded for more than a decade, but Belanger stayed Weaver's shortstop by the grace of his bright talent until, near the end, the three-by-five cards dwindled for Belanger and eventually ran out this year...
...Weaver's teams, all different manner of teams, have won six division championships, four American League pennants and one World Series. Twelve out of 14 years, they have finished first or second. Among all managers, only Connie Mack had as many 100-win seasons (five) and only Joe McCarthy had more (six). Weaver did it largely by being, in his own words,"a truthful, rotten little s.o.b." Though he once screamed at an umpire, "Only you, me and God know the truth!" irreverence has served him as a kind of creed. "Skip, don't you want...