A return to baseball finds Orioles fans blessed with a team looking for a third straight postseason appearance, and a new biography of Baltimore’s beloved former manager, Earl Weaver. Aptly titled ...
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 college ...
The famous Baltimore Orioles manager gets a vivid new biography, the book equivalent of “a screaming triple into the left field corner.” By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed ...
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 two key ...
The ones who like stories like Earl Weaver, the cartoon character—the one whose mic’d up tête-à-tête with umpire Bill Haller ended with the famous “you’re a liar, Earl / no, you are” back and forth; ...