Earl Weaver was the perfect baseball manager. A bantam without the athleticism to make it in the Show, he had a numbers runner's smarts that made his Orioles perennial contenders. His pre-computer-age secret was a collection of 3x5 cards on which he plotted the stats of all his batters against opposing pitchers, and vice versa. Weaver had excellent instincts, and knew that in baseball (which,... More >>>