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Earl Weaver Baseball is a baseball video game (1987) designed by Don Daglow and Eddie Dombrower and published by Electronic Arts. The artificial intelligence for the computer manager was provided by Baseball Hall of Fame member Earl Weaver, then manager of the Baltimore Orioles, based on a lengthy series of interviews. [1]
During his tenure as major league manager, the Orioles won the American League pennant in 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1979, each time winning 100 games. Weaver was the first manager since Billy Southworth (1942–44) to win 100 games in three straight seasons.
Storybook Weaver is a 1990 educational game originally released on floppy disk for the Apple IIGS, aimed at children aged 6–12. An updated version, Storybook Weaver Deluxe, was released for Windows and Mac computers and featured much more content than the original.
Weaver struck out a career-high 15 batters on April 10, 2011, in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays. Weaver became the second pitcher in major league history to win his sixth game in just his team's twenty-third game, which tied him with Randy Johnson in 2002.
Hollywood Squares. Hollywood Squares (originally The Hollywood Squares) is an American game show [1] [2] [3] [4] in which two contestants compete in a game of tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The show piloted on NBC in 1965 and the regular series debuted in 1966 on the same network.
After losing Game 2 of the 2006 World Series to the Detroit Tigers, Weaver came back on October 27 in Game 5 to pitch eight innings, giving up four hits and one earned run. He was credited with the win as the Cardinals clinched the series 4-1.
The Pistons never won more than 23 games under Weaver, including just 17 wins in 2022-23 and a franchise-worst mark of 14-68 this past season, rubber-stamped by a 28-game losing streak.
Electronic Arts. Platform (s) MS-DOS. Release. 1991. Genre (s) Sports. Earl Weaver Baseball II is a sports video game for MS-DOS compatible operating systems published by Electronic Arts in 1991. It is the sequel to the 1987 game Earl Weaver Baseball .
Weaver and Bethesda are credited with developing the first real-time physics engine for sports simulation, used in Bethesda's Gridiron! video game. Weaver also developed game screen captioning for the deaf and made it available as open source software.
Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland. The company was founded by Christopher Weaver in 1986 as a division of Media Technology Limited. In 1999, it became a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media. In its first 15 years, it was a video game developer and self-published its titles.