Experts in management training say it would be a bad idea for Yankees manager Aaron Boone to ditch his calm persona and to try to ignite his team with fiery comments. AP
The gum nearly fell out of Ken Singleton’s mouth.
It was the late 1970s and Baltimore manager Earl Weaver was in the midst of an spit-flying rip job of his players in the visitors' clubhouse at Arlington Park. Of course, that wasn’t anything new; Weaver breathed fire. But Weaver took his performance too far when he threatened to trade ace Jim Palmer — the team’s best player and an eventual Hall of Famer — right to Palmer’s face.
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