BALTIMORE — The photos of Earl Weaver, champion of the three-run homer, are found along the walls of Camden Yards.
You see the little man everywhere in this wondrous ball park, he and Jim Palmer and Brooks Robinson and Cal Ripken Jr., just as you see the photos of Joe Carter and Cito Gaston and George Bell inside the hallways at Rogers Centre.
They were all about power, back then and maybe even now, and there’s little doubt that Weaver, the championship manager, wouldn’t care much for the deep thinkers in baseball, who have mathematically devalued the home run and the home-run hitter, oddly at a time when homers are being hit at a near-record pace.