Earl Weaver set the standard as an ingenious strategist with an astute ability to extract the full measure of talent that any given player had to offer. Raymond Daniel Burke, a Baltimore native ...

Earl Weaver biography ‘The Last Manager’ details life of former Orioles skipper Author John W. Miller, who grew up an O’s fan, says book is ‘very much my life’s work’ ...

In a biography of Weaver published last month, journalist John W. Miller seeks to answer that very question. The publisher, Simon & Schuster, provided me a copy of The Last Manager: How Earl ...

Earl Weaver argues with an umpire, a common sight in the 1970s at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. “The Last Manager,” John Miller’s new biography of baseball Hall of Famer Earl Weaver, has ...

Earl Weaver charmed Baltimore with tirades and lots of winning. John W. Miller’s “The Last Manager” is a biography of the fiery Orioles skipper who was ahead of his time as a strategist ...

When Earl Weaver died in January 2013, John W. Miller was covering the steel industry for the Wall Street Journal. But someone on the sports desk knew Miller was a baseball nut — a former ...

Baseball fans too young to remember the Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver (1930-2013) are of two minds about the man. It all depends on whether they like baseball for the stories or for the ...

THE LAST MANAGER: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball | By John W. Miller | Avid Reader Press | 331 pp. | $30 A correction was made on Feb. 24, 2025 ...

The Gamblers and Hustlers That Made Baseball’s Greatest Manager Earl Weaver learned about playing the odds from his bookmaker uncle. Those lessons would turn him into a pioneer of modern analytics.

In “The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball,” Mr. Miller makes the case that Weaver was both a baseball innovator and a bygone archetype: His domineering ...