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John W. Miller

Biography

John W. Miller

John W. Miller is a writer, baseball coach and contributing writer at America Magazine. He has reported from six continents and over 40 countries for The Wall Street Journal and also has written for Time, NPR and The Baltimore Sun. Miller is the co-director of the acclaimed 2020 PBS film Moundsville and the founder of Moundsville.org. He has coached two Brussels teams to Little League World Series tournaments and has scouted for the Baltimore Orioles. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife.

John W. Miller

Books by John W. Miller

The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball
by John W. Miller - Biography, Nonfiction, Sports

Long before the Moneyball Era, the Earl of Baltimore reigned over baseball. History’s feistiest and most colorful manager, Earl Weaver transformed the sport by collecting and analyzing data in visionary ways, ultimately winning more games than anybody else during his time running the Orioles from 1968 to 1982. Beyond being a great baseball mind, Weaver was a rare baseball character. Major League Baseball is show business, and Weaver understood how much of his job was entertainment. THE LAST MANAGER uncovers the story of Weaver’s St. Louis childhood with a mobster uncle, his years of minor-league heartbreak, and his unlikely road to becoming a big-league manager, while tracing the evolution of the game from the old-time baseball of cross-country trains and “desk contracts” to the modern era of free agency, video analysis and powerful player agents.