You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

So whenever the Orioles were on the primary ABC game Weaver worked the backup game. He joined the Orioles in 1957 as skipper of their Fitzgerald club in the Georgia-Florida League.

After playing in minor league baseball he retired without playing in Major League Baseball (MLB). He became a minor league manager and then managed in MLB for 17 years with the Baltimore Orioles (1968–1982; 1985–1986).