In the 1970s, when female reporters were first allowed in baseball locker rooms, I was leaving Earl Weaver's office one night after his smart, sarcastic postmortem of a tough Orioles defeat. I ...

With its mastery of in-game strategy and stats, EWB was more than just fun — it helped teach players how baseball really worked.

The St. Louis Browns. The Milwaukee Brewers — no, really, just for one year. The team we know as the Baltimore Orioles has ...

It’s Sept. 17, 1980, and Earl Weaver, the great Baltimore Orioles manager who died Friday night at 82, is shouting down umpire Bill Haller at the old Memorial Stadium. “You’re here, and your ...

When it comes to baseball managers, no one did it better than Earl Weaver.

Earl Weaver was far ahead of his time in many ways. In one important aspect of the game — brawls, beanballs, retaliation and unwritten codes — the late Orioles Hall of Fame manager would still ...

A return to baseball finds Orioles fans blessed with a team looking for a third straight postseason appearance, and a new biography of Baltimore’s beloved former manager, Earl Weaver. Aptly ...

When Earl Weaver died in January 2013, John W. Miller was covering the steel industry for the Wall Street Journal. But someone on the sports desk knew Miller was a baseball nut — a former ...

This is a history of baseball that has been written for Orioles fans, non-Orioles fans, and non-baseball fans alike. Miller starts at the end of Weaver’s managerial career - the first end, that ...

In 33 years of covering baseball, no one taught me more about the game than Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver.

The Gamblers and Hustlers That Made Baseball’s Greatest Manager Earl Weaver learned about playing the odds from his bookmaker uncle. Those lessons would turn him into a pioneer of modern analytics.