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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1668030926
ISBN-13
9781668030929
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24068266390
Product Key Features
Book Title
Last Manager : How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / History, General, Coaching / Baseball, Sports
Publication Year
2025
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-033511
Reviews
"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, PRAISE FOR THE LAST MANAGER : "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, "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, PRAISE FOR THE LAST MANAGER : "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, "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)
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The
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20241016
Dewey Decimal
796.357/092/4 B
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Baseball books don't get any better than this...Earl Weaver has at last been given his due." --George F. Will "Vivid...Most sports books are pop flies to the infield. Miller's is a screaming triple into the left field corner." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times The first major biography of legendary Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver--who has been described as "the Copernicus of baseball" and "the grandfather of the modern game"-- The Last Manager is a wild, thrilling, and hilarious ride with baseball's most underappreciated genius, and one of its greatest characters. 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. When Weaver was hired by the Orioles, managers were still seen as coaches and inspirational leaders, more teachers of the game than strategists. Weaver invented new ways of building baseball teams, prioritizing on-base average, elite defense, and strike throwing. Weaver was the first manager to use a modern radar gun, and he pioneered the use of analytical data. By moving six-foot four-inch Cal Ripken Jr. to shortstop, Weaver paved the way for a generation of plus-sized superstar shortstops, such as Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter. He foreshadowed almost everything that Bill James, Billy Beane, Theo Epstein, and hundreds of other big-brain baseball types would later present as innovations. 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. Weaver's legendary outbursts offered players cathartic relief from their own frustration, signaled his concern for the team, and fired up fans. In his frequent arguments with umpires, he hammed it up for the crowds, faked heart attacks, ripped bases out of the ground, and pretended to toss umpires out of the game. Weaver also fought with his players, especially Jim Palmer, but that creative tension contributed to stunning success and a hilarious clubhouse. During his tenure as major-league manager, the Orioles won the American League pennant in 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1979, each time winning more than 100 games. 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. Weaver's career is a critical juncture in baseball history. He was the only manager to hold a job during the five years leading up to and the five years after free agency upended the sport in 1976. Weaver was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996. "No manager belongs there more," wrote Tom Boswell. "Weaver encapsulates the fire, the humor, the brains, the childishness, the wisdom and the goofy fun of baseball." The Last Manager tells the story of one man--belligerent, genius, infamous--who left his mark on the game for generations.
LC Classification Number
GV865.W38M55 2025
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