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Weaver's relationship with Palmer had its friction, but plenty of respect
For all the years that they did battle in the clubhouse or the sports pages or on the dais of some charity roast, Jim Palmer knew how Earl Weaver really felt about him. That's why he had to hold back tears Saturday when he related his favorite memory of...
Tags: Sports, Baseball, Jim Palmer, Mike Flanagan, Baltimore Convention Center
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In final days, former Orioles manager Earl Weaver still feisty to the end
The Baltimore SunFormer Orioles manager Earl Weaver became a fixture at the annual Baltimore Baseball Cruise, traveling as part of a baseball-themed trek around the Caribbean during the offseason for many of the past 22 years. Early Saturday morning, the 82-year-old...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Heart Attack
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Weaver will have private funeral service, Orioles will plan memorial in Baltimore
The Baltimore SunFuneral services for former Orioles manager Earl Weaver, who died aboard a baseball-themed cruise in the Caribbean, have not yet been scheduled, but a private service will likely be held later this week in South Florida. The week-long cruise, which...Tags: Sports, Baseball, Baltimore Orioles
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William R. Smith, 83, lover of railroads great and small
William R. Smith, a career railroader who rose from coach cleaner to head the Canton Railroad Co. and was also a strong advocate for the port of Baltimore, died Saturday from complications of Parkinson's disease at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. The...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Christianity, Parkinson's Disease, Politics, Arts and Culture
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Reaction to Earl Weaver's death
Peter Angelos, Orioles managing partner "Earl Weaver stands alone as the greatest manager in the history of the Orioles organization and one of the greatest in the history of baseball. This is a sad day for everyone who knew him and for all Orioles...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Yogi Berra, American League, Arts and Culture, New York Yankees
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Buck Showalter on Earl Weaver: 'I look at the No. 4 in the dugout every day'
The Baltimore SunSome more comments from Orioles manager Buck Showalter on the late Earl Weaver: "I’m so thankful for the time I had with him. Spring training last year, especially, we had him down speaking, basically having a classroom with our coaches and...Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Buck Showalter
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Earl Weaver was a fan of cruising
Famed Orioles baseball manager Earl Weaver died early Saturday aboard a cruise ship after spending nearly a week sailing the Caribbean surrounded by fans, friends and family. The 82-year-old Weaver was taking part in The Original Baltimore Baseball...
Tags: Sports, Baseball, Travel, Cruises, Tourism and Leisure
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Earl Weaver preached moneyball before it became 'Moneyball'
The Baltimore SunEarl Weaver’s last great season as a manager, 1982, coincided with my first as a young baseball fan, growing up in Baltimore. So in a sense, he has always been the manager — the Platonic ideal of the species — for me. What I didn&...Tags: Culture, Arts, Cleveland Indians, Arts and Culture, Ceremonies
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Covering Earl Weaver was a joy
The Baltimore SunEarl Weaver was a reporter’s dream-come-true. If you were a young columnist covering the Orioles in the early 80s, as I was for the old Evening Sun, you couldn’t ask to be around a more colorful manager. You almost didn’t have to...Tags: Sports, Baseball, Jim Palmer, Baltimore Orioles
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Earl Weaver dies: Hall of Fame baseball manager passes away at 82
Pop2itWeaver was known for his exuberance -- in fact, he was kicked out of 98 games for arguing with umpires. He regularly for kicked dirt on the umpires and turned the brim of his cap backwards when he argued with them so that he could get as close as possible... -
Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 62
Richard Ben Cramer, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer and an acclaimed author chronicling the lives of politicians and legendary sports figures, died Monday of...
Tags: Chestertown, Journalism, White House, Baltimore Orioles, Biography (genre)
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Baseball's strike zone is the hotly contested center of the game
The heater rides in at 91 miles an hour, belt-high and straight, giving Orioles hitter Matt Wieters a good view of what looks like a strike in the making. As it reaches the plate, it dives toward the ground.
No mortal can say for sure whether the...Tags: Jim Johnson, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Jim Palmer, New York Yankees, Barry Bonds
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