Author John W. Miller, who grew up an Orioles fan, says his biography of Earl Weaver, “The Last Manager,” is “very much my ...

Smith, from Jamestown, pitched in the Major League for 18 years from 1980 to 1997 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of ...

Earl Weaver learned about playing the odds from his bookmaker uncle. Those lessons would turn him into a pioneer of modern analytics.

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 ...

THE LAST MANAGER: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball, by John W. Miller The greatest sight in Major League Baseball during the 1970s was almost certainly this one ...

John W. Miller is author of the forthcoming book “The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented and Reinvented Baseball,” from which this piece is adapted. The 1968 Major League ...