Word: weavers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keeps his Orioles flying high, i despite injuries and the power Lof the Yankees and the Red Sox, Weaver has grown in stature in the eyes of his peers. "He gets the most out of every individual," says George Bamberger, who used to coach Baltimore's pitchers and now manages the Milwaukee Brewers, another strong team in the division...
...great when times are bad. He doesn't panic when his team goes into a slump." Says John Schuerholz, vice president of the Kansas City Royals: "In years past I considered Weaver among the best managers in baseball. Now I think he is the best of them all. I hesitate to say that he's mellowed, really, because he's as fiery a competitor as ever. But he's matured as an individual, and he's gotten to know so much about the game. Those tremendously aggressive instincts are now tempered with a tremendous amount...
...Earl Weaver, at 5 ft. 8 in. and 165 Ibs., a bundle of energy but not of modesty, admits that no one can evaluate players as well as he. "But I learned to judge a ballplayer's capabilities the hard way by having to recognize my own incapabilities." Weaver, 48, grew up in St Louis in the days of the Cardinals...
House Gang and the old Browns of the American League. (In 1954 the Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles.) Both the Cards and the Browns won pennants in 1944, and Weaver had the treat of a home-town World Series...
...player in the minors: tank towns, bus rides, bad food, but he was young and playing ball and that was all that mattered. Red Schoendienst was the resident second baseman for the Cards in those days, and no minor leaguer was about to dislodge him. The closest Weaver came was a single spring training on the big league roster before being sent down again to Class AA. "My biggest thrill was when I got into a game and somebody popped the ball up behind second base. I went back for it, and all of a sudden, I heard Enos Slaughter...