The Last Manager” chronicles legendary Orioles Manager Earl Weaver’s life beginning in the rough streets of 1930s St. Louis ...

Temperamentally an old-school manager, Earl Weaver was also a baseball pioneer who embraced analytics and technology.

A little more than 12 years later, Miller’s biography of Weaver — “The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball” — will hit shelves Tuesday. The book ...

Palmer clashed with his former manager repeatedly during his playing career, but the two developed respect that turned into ...

By that clichéd standard, famed Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver would have been a billionaire. Weaver, a man Reggie Jackson once labeled a “crazed munchkin,” got tossed 96 times during ...

Tony Ryma speaks with John W. Miller, author of The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball ...

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 ...

While playing for Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver, Dauer was batting ninth for the Orioles, but with the bases loaded in the first inning, Weaver pulled him from the on-deck circle and replaced him ...

Miller’s vivid portrait of one of baseball’s most colorful figures. In “The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball,” Mr. Miller makes the case that ...