Fiery Orioles manager Earl Weaver dead at 82

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"No one managed a ballclub or pitching staff better than Earl," said Johnson, who manages the Washington Nationals, and ran the Orioles from 1996-97. "He was decades ahead of his time. Not a game goes by that I don’t draw on something Earl did or said. I will miss him every day."

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