The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

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).