The famously irascible baseball manager died today at age 82. Weaver managed the Baltimore Orioles for 17 years, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996.
Miscellaneous reasons included, but not limited to:
Shredded rulebook
Smoking in dugout
Piling dirt on second base in argument
Bumped umpire
Arguing over second visit to mound by opposing manager
Threw equipment over called third strike
"Constant arguing"
Data from Retrosheet
RIP, Earl.
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