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"Baseball books dont 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. Millers 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 baseballs most underappreciated genius, and one of its greatest characters.
Long before the Moneyball Era, the Earl of Baltimore reigned over baseball. Historys 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...
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