In December of 2010, a blogger for the New York Times wrote that Orioles’ Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver had died and gone to

earl weaverheaven. He was, in fact, at home in Florida.

“Well I’ll be damned,” said Weaver when contacted by a reporter in Pembroke Pines.

Heaven was also relieved.

Some three years later, on January 19, 2013, the feisty bantam of 33rd street could not be reached for comment when news broke that he had died on a cruise for Orioles fans at age 82. This time it was true. Earl was gone.          …….READ MORE