We are chronicling the ongoing ballplaying career of former Twins outfielder Lew Ford with a column that will appear at startribune.com and in Thursday's print edition. Justin Morneau also was able to ...

A sad anniversary passed on Thursday with little notice. It was on that date - Jan. 19, 2013 - when the greatest manager in Orioles history, Earl Weaver, died. It happened on the morning of FanFest ...

On the day that the Orioles are holding their annual FanFest, news has spread through the Baltimore Convention Center that Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver passed away last night. He was 82. Weaver ...

BALTIMORE — Earl Weaver always was up for an argument, especially with an umpire. At the slightest provocation, the Earl of Baltimore would spin his hat back, point his finger squarely at an ump's ...

Irascible, chain-smoking, umpire-baiting longtime Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver penned his own epitaph. “On my tombstone just write, ‘The sorest loser that ever lived,’ ” he once said. Weaver, ...

Eight innings into a no-hitter, there was no way Jim Palmer was going to let Reggie Jackson spoil the fun. “I walked Reggie,” Palmer says over the phone, recalling the gem he pitched against the ...

“Earl was a black and white manager,” former O’s ace and Hall of Fame member Jim Palmer said Saturday. “He kind of told you what your job description was going to be and kind of basically told you if ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Baseball Hall of Fame manager Earl ...

BALTIMORE – The Baltimore Orioles honoured Earl Weaver by unveiling a 7-foot statue of the Hall of Fame manager during a ceremony at Camden Yards. The 81-year-old Weaver led the Orioles to four ...

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 college ...

Nike unveiled the “Chicks Dig the Long Ball” advertising campaign in 1999, one year after the home run chase between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Fifteen years earlier, Hall of Fame manager Earl ...