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“Most sports books are pop flies to the infield. Miller’s is a screaming triple into the left field corner. He takes Weaver seriously; he understands why his tenure mattered to baseball; he is alert to the details of the unruly pageant that was his life; he explains, a bit ruefully, why he was probably the last of his kind, an unkempt dinosaur who ruled before the data geckos came into power.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“Such lively fun . . . Miller’s affection for his subject, a character more colorful than the O’s black-and-orange bird mascot, jumps right off the bat. . . . His research is thorough and his interviews plentiful. . . . Miller captures the flawed man and nearly flawless manager in all his profane genius.”
—Patrick Sauer, The Washington Post
“Showman, scrapper, innovator, champion—this baseball manager did it all. . . . Unlike many of today’s relatively mild, predictable managers, Weaver was a crowd-pleasing ham and a rule-flouting trailblazer. An illuminating, entertaining biography of a mercurial tactician who changed the national pastime.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“[Miller] covers the notorious side of the Hall of Fame manager, including the hardscrabble St. Louis upbringing that stiffened his spine, while also revealing Weaver’s lesser-known strengths: an uncommon ability to adapt to circumstances, to put every one of his players in the best position to succeed, and to let go of the grudges that so easily form in the heat of a baseball season. A long overdue, humanizing reassessment of a near-mythic baseball figure.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Napoleonic in stature and executive style, funnier than Casey Stengel, more successful than any of his contemporaries in Major League dugouts, and arguably the most consequential manager ever, Earl Weaver has at last been given his due. In this rollicking read, John W. Miller gives us the man in full. Weaver would scream at an offending umpire, ‘Are you going to get any better, or is this it?’ Baseball books don’t get any better than this.” —George F. Will
“The Last Manager is a fantastic biography—with deep reporting, great writing, and one irresistible anecdote after another. John Miller brings to life one of the game’s great characters in all his fiery glory. He also makes a rock-solid case for Earl Weaver as one of baseball’s underrated pioneers. A special book that reminds us why we love baseball.” —Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A Life, Ali: A Life, and Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
“Miller expertly shows just how long Earl Weaver’s shadow still is. Weaver was the last of a breed of men, stunning geniuses all—profane, indefatigable, genuine characters—who shaped the golden age of baseball, in striking contrast to the careful, calculating corporate men who try to manage today.” —Ken Burns, Emmy Award–winning documentarian of Baseball
“Earl Weaver was an old school archetype—a heavy drinking, chain smoking, foul mouthed, umpire baiting terror—and a visionary statistical analyst long ahead of his time. John Miller’s fascinating and entertaining portrait shows us how his genius was formed. A great read.” —Ron Shelton, writer and director of Bull Durham
Who Is Earl Weaver?
“Weaver is the grandfather of the modern game. He understood better than anyone in his time the preciousness of the 27 outs (often regarding the sacrifice bunt as a waste of one), the folly of the hit-and-run, the value and symbiosis of pitching and defense, and the importance of batter-pitcher matchups, statistical analysis and on-base percentage. Weaver was the Copernicus of baseball. Just as Copernicus understood heliocentric cosmology a full century before the invention of the telescope, Weaver understood smart baseball a generation before it was empirically demonstrated. . . . Before Moneyball, before Beane, before Bill James—but not quite before Copernicus—Weaver, a white-haired gnome who never played a day of major league baseball, knew what worked. The most recent generation of general managers, armed with their computer printouts and Ivy League–educated assistants, all channel something from the Earl of Baltimore.” —Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated
“Earl Weaver was a manager for all seasons. Some guys are good when they’re got a winning ball club, but when things start to go bad, they don’t know what to do. Or they’re a good manager with a good ball club, but a bad manager with a bad ball club. Or they look like a pretty good manager, but they’ve never been in a pennant race. Earl had everything. He drank his brains out. But he was a fucking genius.” —Frank Cashen, Baltimore Orioles GM 1971–1975
“I made no bones about it when I first got the job: I always wanted the next Earl Weaver as manager.” —Billy Beane, Oakland A’s GM 1997–2015
“He used everybody. Probably more than any other manager in history, Weaver had carefully defined roles for every player on his roster—not because he cared about the players, but because he cared about the games. It was important to Weaver to have a player matched up in his mind with every possible game situation.” —Bill James
“Weaver will remain most famous for his red-faced, hoarsely screaming set-tos with the umps, which produced hilarious photos, thanks to the size differential, but even here he was an intellectual at heart, having discovered that tipping the bill of his cap to one side would allow him to get an inch or two closer to the arbiter’s jaw, without incurring the automatic ejection of the tiniest physical contact. What Earl wanted, what he battled for and talked about and thought about endlessly, was that edge, the single pitch or particular play or minuscule advantage that could turn an inning or a day or a season his way. Long before Billy Ball, he had his coaches keep multicolored pitching and batting charts that told him which of his batters did well or poorly against each righty or lefty flinger in the league, and where on the field well-hit enemy line drives against one of his starters’ or relievers’ sliders or fastballs would probably land.” —Roger Angell, New Yorker
“Weaver marshaled a scholar’s familiarity with the rule book, a statistician’s data, a psychologist’s motivational skills, and a heckler’s needle into a relentless advocacy for the Orioles.” —Bruce Weber, New York Times
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fiery genius was obsessed with winning
It's been 40 years since Earl Weaver managed a major league baseball team, but the fiery genius left an indelible impression upon the game, the players and the fans. Author John W. Miller refers to Weaver as The Last Manager because data analysis and free agency has shifted control to general managers and the players. Managers are no longer the dominant forces as they were in Weaver's day.Weaver was obsessed with finding the winning edge, bringing out the best in each player and tweaking baseball to see where it would go. His intensity (he said his epitaph should read: "here lies the sorest loser ever") was always geared toward winning. It's what bonded him with his players, despite his many disagreements with Jim Palmer, Rick Dempsey and others. Players also respected Weaver because he was a straight shooter. His golden rule was: No promises to any one and no lies.Weaver invented new ways of building baseball teams. He prioritized high on-base percentage, elite defense and throwing strikes. Later, he added the three-run homer to mantra.Weaver was the first manager to use the radar gun and was a pioneer in using data to create the most effective lineups. He was decades ahead of his time.Thomas Boswell of The Washington Post wrote, "Earl was open to new data, changing trends, new insights into his players or even how to play the game. In other words, though he wouldn't claim it, he was an original thinker."All these traits led to an impressive managerial career that includes 11 seasons of 90 wins or more. From 1968 to 1982, not including the strike-shortened 1981 season, Weaver averaged 97 wins.Author John W. Miller provides great insights into Weaver and particularly his minor league career. Weaver was a much better minor league player than most people remember him as. He would probably have made the 1952 St. Cardinals as a 21-year-old back-up second baseman, if manager Eddie Stanky hadn't taken that position for himself. Weaver never recovered from the heartache and disappointment.Miller covers Weaver's influences growing up, the relationships with his wives and children and his drinking. He delivers a full picture of Weaver.When Weaver was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Boswell wrote, "No manager belongs there more. Weaver encapsulated the fire, the humor, the childishness, the wisdom and the goofy fun of baseball."Author Miller spent five years researching and writing this biography, and it shows. He visited many of the places where Earl played and managed, interviewed his three children and his widow, Marianne, and talked to many of his former players, as well as three umpires.This book should be a delicious, satisfying treat for most every baseball fan.
4.0 out of 5 stars Pitching, Defense and Three Run Homers
I really wanted to give this book five stars. But I have a rule. If I can imagine that the book would have been better if it was written by someone else, I take off a star. And this book is absolutely screaming for Bill James, the guru who launched baseball's statistical revolution, to be the author.John W. Miller has written a merely good baseball biography about a great baseball subject, longtime Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver. Weaver was a St. Louis native with an upbringing that sounds like something out of Damon Runyon, and had ties to the Cardinal Gas House Gang of the 1930s. As a manager, he anticipated the changes to the game that came with computers and statistical analysis. I expected something on the connection between the familiarity of small time gambling with the hair splitting nuances of contemporary corporate team management.To Miller's credit, he keeps the focus entirely on baseball, with chapters describing Weaver's managerial career, season by season. But the reason Weaver was a great biographical subject was because he was part clown, part genius, and Miller focuses mostly on the raging clown.One chapter asserts that Weaver was the greatest defensive manager of all time, and that his Orioles were the greatest defensive dynasty in baseball history. It features a neat 2-3 page profile of shortstop Mark Belanger and made me wonder why the book could not have been more like that, instead of having so much space devoted to the arguments with umpires.Another chapter, quite near the end, speculates that Weaver, and managerial rival Billy Martin, would not even want to manage in today's game, with the Internet, empowered players and so many bossy owners. This strikes me as utterly sentimental and exactly the "good old days" garbage that ruins so much historical writing. Weaver took over the Orioles in the late 60s. The world was falling apart then, too.Highly recommended for any baseball fan. I actually feel it is superior to Jane Levy's biographies of Mickey Mantle and Sandy Koufax. But I also feel it could have been a classic. The author swung and missed at a fastball right down the middle.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book
This deeply researched, richly engaging book is a treasure. If you care at all about baseball, especially about its human and strategic dimensions, find this book. You'll be on for a feast.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Hothead with a Purpose: Play Winning Baseball
I went to opening day April 15, 1954 and many games thru 1983 WS win vs Philadelphia. Then moved to Seattle and am aching for the WS here. When Earl was there I had no idea how much he was schooling me on the game. Great defense gets the pitcher in the dugout to rest. Don’t waste a runner. Pitching is the name of the game. His personality shines through in a clearer light. I had the best tutor one could find. Great read.
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommend this Enjoyable Biography
This is a book that someone could appreciate even if you are not an invested or rabid fan of baseball. Miller has written a memorable biography that helps us understand the experiences in Earl Weaver's life that informed his actions as he worked his way up to becoming a big-league manager. But beyond the successes he created on the diamond, readers are also able to recognize the all-too-human flaws that could have de-railed Weaver's ascent and how he was able to harness those potential weaknesses to lead others and, eventually, earn the sometimes grudging admiration of those he came in contact with during his life and career. I highly recommend this often hilarious biography of one of baseball's true icons.
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Well-written, informative chronicle of the career of Earl Weaver, warts and all, and his times, navigating a succession of minor league managerial posts, ultimately resulting in his promotion, to the manager of the Baltimore Orioles, and his eventual retirement years.
5.0 out of 5 stars Earl of Baltimore
Wonderful read about a great manager!
3.0 out of 5 stars A must read for baseball fans. Brings back fond memories.
It is just too bad he didn't have a better editor. Too many mistakes caught as a casual reader. An example6, Weaver was spelled Weaved
1971
The stuff in St. Louis re Sportsman Park was really interesting. with his strange uncle who was quite a gambler. But his time at the Orioles was rather boring. All the swearing eventually wore me down. I would like to have heard more about the trade of Frank Robinson for next to nothing. And about Game 7 of the 1971 World Series, which had it been won by the Orioles, would have made them one of the greatest teams of all. Even after 54 years losing that game still hurts.Don McLean
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Editorial Reviews
Review
“Most sports books are pop flies to the infield. Miller’s is a screaming triple into the left field corner. He takes Weaver seriously; he understands why his tenure mattered to baseball; he is alert to the details of the unruly pageant that was his life; he explains, a bit ruefully, why he was probably the last of his kind, an unkempt dinosaur who ruled before the data geckos came into power.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“Such lively fun . . . Miller’s affection for his subject, a character more colorful than the O’s black-and-orange bird mascot, jumps right off the bat. . . . His research is thorough and his interviews plentiful. . . . Miller captures the flawed man and nearly flawless manager in all his profane genius.”
—Patrick Sauer, The Washington Post
“Showman, scrapper, innovator, champion—this baseball manager did it all. . . . Unlike many of today’s relatively mild, predictable managers, Weaver was a crowd-pleasing ham and a rule-flouting trailblazer. An illuminating, entertaining biography of a mercurial tactician who changed the national pastime.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“[Miller] covers the notorious side of the Hall of Fame manager, including the hardscrabble St. Louis upbringing that stiffened his spine, while also revealing Weaver’s lesser-known strengths: an uncommon ability to adapt to circumstances, to put every one of his players in the best position to succeed, and to let go of the grudges that so easily form in the heat of a baseball season. A long overdue, humanizing reassessment of a near-mythic baseball figure.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Napoleonic in stature and executive style, funnier than Casey Stengel, more successful than any of his contemporaries in Major League dugouts, and arguably the most consequential manager ever, Earl Weaver has at last been given his due. In this rollicking read, John W. Miller gives us the man in full. Weaver would scream at an offending umpire, ‘Are you going to get any better, or is this it?’ Baseball books don’t get any better than this.” —George F. Will
“The Last Manager is a fantastic biography—with deep reporting, great writing, and one irresistible anecdote after another. John Miller brings to life one of the game’s great characters in all his fiery glory. He also makes a rock-solid case for Earl Weaver as one of baseball’s underrated pioneers. A special book that reminds us why we love baseball.” —Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A Life, Ali: A Life, and Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
“Miller expertly shows just how long Earl Weaver’s shadow still is. Weaver was the last of a breed of men, stunning geniuses all—profane, indefatigable, genuine characters—who shaped the golden age of baseball, in striking contrast to the careful, calculating corporate men who try to manage today.” —Ken Burns, Emmy Award–winning documentarian of Baseball
“Earl Weaver was an old school archetype—a heavy drinking, chain smoking, foul mouthed, umpire baiting terror—and a visionary statistical analyst long ahead of his time. John Miller’s fascinating and entertaining portrait shows us how his genius was formed. A great read.” —Ron Shelton, writer and director of Bull Durham
Who Is Earl Weaver?
“Weaver is the grandfather of the modern game. He understood better than anyone in his time the preciousness of the 27 outs (often regarding the sacrifice bunt as a waste of one), the folly of the hit-and-run, the value and symbiosis of pitching and defense, and the importance of batter-pitcher matchups, statistical analysis and on-base percentage. Weaver was the Copernicus of baseball. Just as Copernicus understood heliocentric cosmology a full century before the invention of the telescope, Weaver understood smart baseball a generation before it was empirically demonstrated. . . . Before Moneyball, before Beane, before Bill James—but not quite before Copernicus—Weaver, a white-haired gnome who never played a day of major league baseball, knew what worked. The most recent generation of general managers, armed with their computer printouts and Ivy League–educated assistants, all channel something from the Earl of Baltimore.” —Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated
“Earl Weaver was a manager for all seasons. Some guys are good when they’re got a winning ball club, but when things start to go bad, they don’t know what to do. Or they’re a good manager with a good ball club, but a bad manager with a bad ball club. Or they look like a pretty good manager, but they’ve never been in a pennant race. Earl had everything. He drank his brains out. But he was a fucking genius.” —Frank Cashen, Baltimore Orioles GM 1971–1975
“I made no bones about it when I first got the job: I always wanted the next Earl Weaver as manager.” —Billy Beane, Oakland A’s GM 1997–2015
“He used everybody. Probably more than any other manager in history, Weaver had carefully defined roles for every player on his roster—not because he cared about the players, but because he cared about the games. It was important to Weaver to have a player matched up in his mind with every possible game situation.” —Bill James
“Weaver will remain most famous for his red-faced, hoarsely screaming set-tos with the umps, which produced hilarious photos, thanks to the size differential, but even here he was an intellectual at heart, having discovered that tipping the bill of his cap to one side would allow him to get an inch or two closer to the arbiter’s jaw, without incurring the automatic ejection of the tiniest physical contact. What Earl wanted, what he battled for and talked about and thought about endlessly, was that edge, the single pitch or particular play or minuscule advantage that could turn an inning or a day or a season his way. Long before Billy Ball, he had his coaches keep multicolored pitching and batting charts that told him which of his batters did well or poorly against each righty or lefty flinger in the league, and where on the field well-hit enemy line drives against one of his starters’ or relievers’ sliders or fastballs would probably land.” —Roger Angell, New Yorker
“Weaver marshaled a scholar’s familiarity with the rule book, a statistician’s data, a psychologist’s motivational skills, and a heckler’s needle into a relentless advocacy for the Orioles.” —Bruce Weber, New York Times
About the Author
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fiery genius was obsessed with winning
It's been 40 years since Earl Weaver managed a major league baseball team, but the fiery genius left an indelible impression upon the game, the players and the fans. Author John W. Miller refers to Weaver as The Last Manager because data analysis and free agency has shifted control to general managers and the players. Managers are no longer the dominant forces as they were in Weaver's day.Weaver was obsessed with finding the winning edge, bringing out the best in each player and tweaking baseball to see where it would go. His intensity (he said his epitaph should read: "here lies the sorest loser ever") was always geared toward winning. It's what bonded him with his players, despite his many disagreements with Jim Palmer, Rick Dempsey and others. Players also respected Weaver because he was a straight shooter. His golden rule was: No promises to any one and no lies.Weaver invented new ways of building baseball teams. He prioritized high on-base percentage, elite defense and throwing strikes. Later, he added the three-run homer to mantra.Weaver was the first manager to use the radar gun and was a pioneer in using data to create the most effective lineups. He was decades ahead of his time.Thomas Boswell of The Washington Post wrote, "Earl was open to new data, changing trends, new insights into his players or even how to play the game. In other words, though he wouldn't claim it, he was an original thinker."All these traits led to an impressive managerial career that includes 11 seasons of 90 wins or more. From 1968 to 1982, not including the strike-shortened 1981 season, Weaver averaged 97 wins.Author John W. Miller provides great insights into Weaver and particularly his minor league career. Weaver was a much better minor league player than most people remember him as. He would probably have made the 1952 St. Cardinals as a 21-year-old back-up second baseman, if manager Eddie Stanky hadn't taken that position for himself. Weaver never recovered from the heartache and disappointment.Miller covers Weaver's influences growing up, the relationships with his wives and children and his drinking. He delivers a full picture of Weaver.When Weaver was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Boswell wrote, "No manager belongs there more. Weaver encapsulated the fire, the humor, the childishness, the wisdom and the goofy fun of baseball."Author Miller spent five years researching and writing this biography, and it shows. He visited many of the places where Earl played and managed, interviewed his three children and his widow, Marianne, and talked to many of his former players, as well as three umpires.This book should be a delicious, satisfying treat for most every baseball fan.
4.0 out of 5 stars Pitching, Defense and Three Run Homers
I really wanted to give this book five stars. But I have a rule. If I can imagine that the book would have been better if it was written by someone else, I take off a star. And this book is absolutely screaming for Bill James, the guru who launched baseball's statistical revolution, to be the author.John W. Miller has written a merely good baseball biography about a great baseball subject, longtime Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver. Weaver was a St. Louis native with an upbringing that sounds like something out of Damon Runyon, and had ties to the Cardinal Gas House Gang of the 1930s. As a manager, he anticipated the changes to the game that came with computers and statistical analysis. I expected something on the connection between the familiarity of small time gambling with the hair splitting nuances of contemporary corporate team management.To Miller's credit, he keeps the focus entirely on baseball, with chapters describing Weaver's managerial career, season by season. But the reason Weaver was a great biographical subject was because he was part clown, part genius, and Miller focuses mostly on the raging clown.One chapter asserts that Weaver was the greatest defensive manager of all time, and that his Orioles were the greatest defensive dynasty in baseball history. It features a neat 2-3 page profile of shortstop Mark Belanger and made me wonder why the book could not have been more like that, instead of having so much space devoted to the arguments with umpires.Another chapter, quite near the end, speculates that Weaver, and managerial rival Billy Martin, would not even want to manage in today's game, with the Internet, empowered players and so many bossy owners. This strikes me as utterly sentimental and exactly the "good old days" garbage that ruins so much historical writing. Weaver took over the Orioles in the late 60s. The world was falling apart then, too.Highly recommended for any baseball fan. I actually feel it is superior to Jane Levy's biographies of Mickey Mantle and Sandy Koufax. But I also feel it could have been a classic. The author swung and missed at a fastball right down the middle.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book
This deeply researched, richly engaging book is a treasure. If you care at all about baseball, especially about its human and strategic dimensions, find this book. You'll be on for a feast.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Hothead with a Purpose: Play Winning Baseball
I went to opening day April 15, 1954 and many games thru 1983 WS win vs Philadelphia. Then moved to Seattle and am aching for the WS here. When Earl was there I had no idea how much he was schooling me on the game. Great defense gets the pitcher in the dugout to rest. Don’t waste a runner. Pitching is the name of the game. His personality shines through in a clearer light. I had the best tutor one could find. Great read.
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommend this Enjoyable Biography
This is a book that someone could appreciate even if you are not an invested or rabid fan of baseball. Miller has written a memorable biography that helps us understand the experiences in Earl Weaver's life that informed his actions as he worked his way up to becoming a big-league manager. But beyond the successes he created on the diamond, readers are also able to recognize the all-too-human flaws that could have de-railed Weaver's ascent and how he was able to harness those potential weaknesses to lead others and, eventually, earn the sometimes grudging admiration of those he came in contact with during his life and career. I highly recommend this often hilarious biography of one of baseball's true icons.
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Well-written, informative chronicle of the career of Earl Weaver, warts and all, and his times, navigating a succession of minor league managerial posts, ultimately resulting in his promotion, to the manager of the Baltimore Orioles, and his eventual retirement years.
5.0 out of 5 stars Earl of Baltimore
Wonderful read about a great manager!
3.0 out of 5 stars A must read for baseball fans. Brings back fond memories.
It is just too bad he didn't have a better editor. Too many mistakes caught as a casual reader. An example6, Weaver was spelled Weaved
1971
The stuff in St. Louis re Sportsman Park was really interesting. with his strange uncle who was quite a gambler. But his time at the Orioles was rather boring. All the swearing eventually wore me down. I would like to have heard more about the trade of Frank Robinson for next to nothing. And about Game 7 of the 1971 World Series, which had it been won by the Orioles, would have made them one of the greatest teams of all. Even after 54 years losing that game still hurts.Don McLean
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