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The last manager : how Earl Weaver tricked, tormented, and reinvented baseball  Cover Image Book Book

The last manager : how Earl Weaver tricked, tormented, and reinvented baseball / John W. Miller.

Summary:

"The first major biography of legendary Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver, The Last Manager is a wild, thrilling, and hilarious ride with baseball's most underappreciated genius, and one of its greatest characters"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1668030926
  • ISBN: 1668030934
  • ISBN: 9781668030929
  • ISBN: 9781668030936
  • Physical Description: ix, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Avid Reader Press, 2025.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-331) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Short note on statistics -- Part 1: Dreams. Part wizard, part general, part clown -- Brat vs. brat -- Part 2: St. Louis. Mound City -- Gangs of St. Louis -- Coach Weaver -- Part 3: Bushes. Lettuce days -- The buff goat -- The Earl of Knoxville -- Bird's nest -- Climb the flagpole -- Bull Durham -- Prince Hal -- Part 4: Baltimore. Big leaguer -- Frank -- The miracle way -- Bus-league Napoleons -- Pitching -- Strike one -- Clap for the clown -- ... and defense -- Supernatural manager -- Spring of the gun -- Free Reggie -- Favorite son -- Son of Sam -- Three-run homers -- You're here for one reason -- The chosen -- Thanks, Earl -- De-Weaverization -- Things fall apart --- Part 5: Fame. Videogame -- Cooperstown -- The Earl of Baltimore -- The manager's cards -- Epilogue: The players.
Subject: Weaver, Earl, 1930-2013.
Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team) > History.
Baseball managers > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sage Library System.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Baker County Library 796.357092 .W363m 2025 (Text) 37814003706539 NON-FICTION - NEW Available -

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