Earl Weaver: The Fiery Genius Who Revolutionized Baseball Strategy, Kicked Dirt On Umpires, And Proved That A Short Guy With A Big Brain Could Outsmar (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798249205324)

There's a reason umpires saw Earl Weaver coming and braced themselves. At 5'7" on a generous day, he wasn't exactly an imposing figure - until he opened his mouth. Then all bets were off.

Earl Weaver: The Fiery Genius Who Revolutionized Baseball Strategy, Kicked Dirt On Umpires, And Proved That A Short Guy With A Big Brain Could Outsmart Everybody is the full, unfiltered story of one of baseball's most brilliant and maddening minds. Weaver never played a single game in the major leagues. Didn't matter. He went on to manage the Baltimore Orioles for seventeen seasons, win over a thousand games, and get himself ejected more times than most managers care to count. He loved the three-run homer, hated the sacrifice bunt, and was running a version of sabermetrics before anyone had a name for it.

But this isn't just a baseball book. It's the story of a stubborn, complicated man who bet everything on his own instincts - and mostly won. A guy who could be infuriating and brilliant in the same breath, who earned the respect of players who'd watched him lose his mind on a field more times than they could remember.

He changed how the game is managed. He just did it loudly.

Open the book and you'll understand why.