We’re in the midst of some kinda 4-day span for high profile ejections ; Gary Sheffield, Jim Leyland, the suspended indefinitely Lou Piniella, and in an impresive display that might win him Allison Stokke-esque web popularity, Mississippi Braves skipper Phillip Wellman.
With all due respect to all of the above, they are mere students in the fine art of losing it in public (though Wellman’s certain got potential).
The Earl of Baltimore.
In 1981 third base coach Cal Ripken Sr and Earl Weaver were walking through Memorial Stadium when they stepped over to us and gave my sister a baseball. Greatest Oriole that ever lived, bar none. Man was a genius. At two separate games the Orioles were down by one or two runs, Earl got upset over some call, started a fight with the umpire and got ejected. The crowd went wild, insanely wild and the Orioles got pumped up to win BOTH games while someone else called the shots. I’ve never seen that play performed with such finesse as Weaver. I never saw Weaver get the credit for using the fake argument to win games, but it was his signature technique.