forbes.com - 6/22/2009
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Sure, home runs and stolen bases are cool, but the ejection of a manager is baseball's greatest performance art. Two actors (manager and umpire) meet on center stage in front of thousands to kick dirt, toss bases and hats and spit tobacco juice and obscenities into each other's faces. The fact ...
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Baseball's Most-Ejected Managers
Roar from 34 - A Baltimore Orioles Blog —
Forbes' list of " Baseball's Most Ejected Managers " only goes back to 2004, but that doesn't stop Monte Burke from giving a nod to Earl Weaver. Earl Weaver, the fiery, longtime manager of the Baltimore Orioles, was perhaps the art's most flashy practitioner. While he argued, he furiously pecked the brim of his hat on an umpire like a bird. He once tore up a rulebook and scattered the pages all over the field. In an infamous incident, Weaver was tossed for smoking a cigarette in the dugout. The next day he delivered the lineup card to the ump with a candy cig dangling from his ...
Managerial Ejections
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Forbes Magazine looks at the most ejected managers of the last 5 1/2 years.
Forbes On Baseball's Most-Ejected Managers
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog —
Mike Scioscia and Joe Torre both make the list (since 2004), headed by Atlanta's Bobby Cox. Via David Pinto.
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Empyreal Environs —
... Eckersley mentioned that Cox gets thrown out just to stay in shape, and was he ever right. Cox is the all-time leader in ejections with 143. ...
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About those tweaked Oregon jerseys; photo after the jump. (Register-Guard)
Three Dallas Cowboys o-linemen sign a heavy metal music deal. (Billboard)
Wimbledon attire. (SBD)
Listy! The most ejected baseball managers. (Forbes)
Arrogant Keith Hernandez is not impressed by Teixeira. ...
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