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John W. Miller

@jmjournalist.bsky.social
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Writer, baseball coach. Author of NYT Bestseller The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented and Reinvented Baseball

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Mikal Lewis @mikal-el.com · 21/09/2026
August 6, 2026 the Orioles manager at the time had a different take for Holliday.
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If he'd have played it safer, Beavers would have scored after Alonso and Gunnar Henderson walked and Christian Encarnacion-Strand was hit by a pitch. Still, a prime opportunity remained with the bases loaded for Holliday. But after watching the three batters in front of him reach because Angels right-hander Ryan Johnson couldn't find the strike zone, Holliday swung at the first pitch he saw and grounded out to second.
"If he feels like it's a good pitch to hit, you've got to go," Albernaz said.
"You've got to take your shot. You can't be passive up there. If it's a good pitch to hit like that, let it rip."
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Nicolaus De Missuria @deromaaliisque.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Picked this up at our library Looking forward to learning something new from @leanderalphabet.bsky.social
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The tell that the entire Kaepernick discourse was culture war bullshit is that Jackie Robinson, a Republican veteran, wrote in his memoir that he never stood for or sang the anthem, or saluted the flag, because he was "a Black man in a white world." And everybody was like, "Yeah, ok. Fair enough."
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BREAKING: We sued the Pentagon to STOP the firing of 3 Stars & Stripes journalists for defending their paper's independence The firings came a day after reporting on USS Abraham Lincoln @democracydefendersfund.org @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social @govacctproj.bsky.social & MFIA clinic are on it👇 -TN
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Fired Journalists From Stars and Stripes Sue Pentagon
Three journalists dismissed from Stars and Stripes accused the government of violating their First Amendment rights, asking the courts to stop their termination.
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Formerly Lord Mike on Twitter, Baltic Whale Psychiatrist @lorddroid.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is so cool! I'm glad others still play and support this great game, the best baseball sim there ever was: Modern Season Disk Generation for Earl Weaver Baseball 1.5 – Lahman, R, and SeasonTool Integration www.tuatarasoftware.com/2026/06/14/m...
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Modern Season Disk Generation for Earl Weaver Baseball 1.5 – Lahman, R, and SeasonTool Integration
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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thanks for ordering! I reccomend Larry Bowa's book, "I Still Hate to Lose," Dick Allen's "Crash," and Jamie Moyer's, "Just Tell Me I Can't." And this one's not Philly, but I also enjoyed John W. Miller's book about Earl Weaver, "The Last Manager."
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Center for Sports Communication & Media @ut-cscm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Long before the Moneyball Era, Earl Weaver reigned over baseball. The irascible Baltimore Orioles manager transformed the sport by collecting and analyzing data in visionary ways, ultimately winning more games than any contemporary peer. Read it: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-La...
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John W. Miller @jmjournalist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Catholicism that Ms. Rollins incarnates is heavy on practical assistance. Her question to people is not “What do you believe?” It’s “How can I help you?” www.americamagazine.org/features/202...
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The Ohio art teacher leading the Catholic response to the Haitian immigrant crisis
Casey Rollins is living an extraordinary third act as an internationally known face of American kindness.
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John W. Miller @jmjournalist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Catholicism that Ms. Rollins incarnates is heavy on practical assistance. Her question to people is not “What do you believe?” It’s “How can I help you?” www.americamagazine.org/features/202...
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The Ohio art teacher leading the Catholic response to the Haitian immigrant crisis
Casey Rollins is living an extraordinary third act as an internationally known face of American kindness.
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Jeffrey B. Paul @jeffpaul.com · 29/07/2026
Today’s beach read, diving into the feisty and hilarious Earl Weaver #TheLastManager
The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver tricked, tormented, and reinvented baseball held in hand with a sandy beach and fishing pier in background
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John W. Miller @jmjournalist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
For America Magazine, I spent a couple days last week in Springfield, Ohio, talking to its Haitian community about the possible end of Temporary Protected Status. www.americamagazine.org/features/202...
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Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were vilified by Trump. Now they’re bracing for the end of TPS.
Catholic organizations are helping Haitian immigrant communities prepare for what many fear will be a campaign of arrest and deportation.
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
What's cool about books is that even after World Cups are over, you can still read them to make sense of what you just saw. You can pick up a copy of mine, THE LONG GAME, at, say, @bookculture.com in Long Island City. Where you'll find it on, oh, you know, the non-fiction BEST-SELLERS TABLE.
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Matt Kremnitzer @mattkremnitzer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
When do the O's announce Kevin Brown's extension? Tomorrow, please
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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 13/07/2026
Reading a book about Earl Weaver, and my eyebrows shot up at these descriptions of batter-to-batter betting in the middle of the 20th century.
Photo of text from an e-reader. Excerpt from "The Last Manager" by John W. Miller.

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...predictive algorithms as teams.

In the 1940s, bars, saloons, clubs, and hotels carried Western Union tickers that spit out scores. Newspapers printed odds and quoted bookmakers on big games. "You will see them everywhere if you know where to look 'finger' bettors, they are sometimes called in the trade," reported John Lardner in Newsweek in 1944. "The gentlemen occupy the same seats daily, and offer odds and take bets by hand signals on balls, strikes, hits, whether there will be a score that inning, etc. That payoff is outside the ballpark after the game." In 1949, casinos in Los Angeles offered "television baseball gambling." Croupiers stood in front of a televised ballgame singing out odds. "Will the batter fly out, strike out, single, knock the ball out of the park? Will the runner on second go on the next pitch? What will the next pitch be, ball or strike?"

St. Louis was a hotbed. Bookies in town handled $1.5 million a week in wagers on baseball. Uncle Bud and his associates at Sportsman's Park offered prop bets on pitch counts, runs, hits, and a dozen other categories. The Cardinals sometimes cracked down, under pressure from Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the baseball...
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"Le Chonk" @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 14/07/2026
it's a social institution when they want money from the public but a business when they want to keep money from the public
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A book like this has been my white whale —until now!
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I only have a few more days to spam you guys with pleas to pre-order this book, so let’s make this post count! Pub day is Tuesday 📕💰📖💳
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American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA
July 14, 2026 Foreword by Kim KellyEdited by Anne Trubek  "A mesmerizing combination of voices ... Readers will be hooked." — Publishers Weekly During the Great Depression, out-of-work writers—includi...
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
*chuckles awkwardly* Well... um... want to understand why the United States men's national team is the way it is? I can offer a 300-page explainer: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722130...
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The Long Game by Leander Schaerlaeckens: 9780593653876 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“Engrossing, insightful . . . [The Long Game] pulls no punches when describing the critiques and failures of the U.S. soccer system over the past few decades.” —Miguel Salazar, The New...
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John W. Miller @jmjournalist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
And if you’d heard me yelling at the TV yesterday after 85 minutes you’d know I basically agree. This year’s team looks 1,000 years old sometimes.
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John W. Miller @jmjournalist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Yeah euros have been duds I agree.
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John W. Miller @jmjournalist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
And since I was born (Brussels, 1977), the only years we didn’t qualify for the WC were 2006 and 2010. You’d love this overall record for U.S., no? And this is a tiny country that’s usually not good at anything and isn’t even really a country.
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John W. Miller @jmjournalist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I know that’s the popular take but it’s not this Belgian’s. We got bounced in the 1/4s in 2014 by Messi’s Argentina, the 1/2s in 2018 by Mbappe (and then beat England for 3rd place). This year we’re at it again. 2022 was only WC flop, and only loss was to a Morocco team that made the semis.
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John W. Miller @jmjournalist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Except maybe for beating Brazil and finishing 3rd in 2018?
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My book, THE LONG GAME: U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts, is out today by @vikingbooks.bsky.social. I found a ton of fresh stories. I think both hardcore fans and the USMNT-curious will like it. I'm really proud of the book and hope you'll read it.
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The Long Game by Leander Schaerlaeckens: 9780593653876 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The gripping account of the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026 For almost half a century,...
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Mike Jordan Laskey @mikelaskey.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I was thrilled to be named the Catholic Media Association's podcaster of the year! And our awesome team brought home 14 total awards. See them all here: www.jesuits.org/stories/jesu...
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John W. Miller @jmjournalist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is v good point.
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This could be you. You could live like James. You just have to choose to.
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
My #USMNT book, The Long Game, is 2 weeks old today. I just signed a whole stack of 'em at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square NYC. Go grab 'em there, or here! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722130...
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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Zipped through this @leanderalphabet.bsky.social tome in Paris, not only is it a must-read for ussoccer sickos, it's also a really well written popular history in general.
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Eric Betts @ericjbetts.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Finally had time to spend with @leanderalphabet.bsky.social's unsurprisingly excellent The Long Game and zipped through it in two days. Surely at the top of books about the soccer in this country, no qualifiers needed.
The Long Game book cover.
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Imagine my relief that all six of the players I chose to profile for my book and had to commit to *THREE YEARS AGO* have made the World Cup roster.
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Oh, hey, look. It's me!
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Level up your mail
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John W. Miller @jmjournalist.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Congratulations to my man @leanderalphabet.bsky.social. His book The Long Game on the U.S. men’s national soccer team is out today. It’s really good. Buy two copies and read one!
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John W. Miller @jmjournalist.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Congratulations to my man @leanderalphabet.bsky.social. His book The Long Game on the U.S. men’s national soccer team is out today. It’s really good. Buy two copies and read one!
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
G Flores, whoever they are, will always be a friend of this household. My book "The Long Game: U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts" is out Tuesday. Id love it if you bought a copy. G Flores thinks you should. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722130...
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Ethan Goode @etygoode.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
His “favorite Weaverism was a philosophical aphorism that reflected the skipper’s hidden depths: ‘Everything changes everything.’” - John W. Miller, The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball
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Joel @joelskeetsos.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
No better way to spend an off day than finishing The Last Manager by John W Miller. Being a young, first-gen Orioles fan, my only impression of Earl Weaver was "what if Tommy from GOODFELLAS were a baseball manager?" But this was such a beautiful, moving portrait of a man I now wish I knew.
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Adam Henig @adamhenig.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
After 6 years, the book is done. My latest quarterly newsletter. mailchi.mp/62dbd053dc91... @jmjournalist.bsky.social @metrotimes.com @bestbookstore.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social #ronleflore @powells.bsky.social #detroittigers @biographersintl.bsky.social @sportssocietyvu.bsky.social
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Extremely fortunate and rare to have such a smart reviewer given space to write, and Matthew King did it so thoughtfully. @clereviewbooks.bsky.social is doing great work.
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Shrugs That Kill: On Patrick Wensink’s “The Great Black Swamp” - Cleveland Review of Books
A million-acre wetland of towering oaks, six-foot-deep mud, wolves, and malaria, northwest Ohio was arguably the most inhospitable piece of land in the world.
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Ethan Goode @etygoode.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“The moment when we hit bottom and must get up is when we start conjuring a true vocation from an alchemy of inspiration, talent, and circumstance.” - John W. Miller, The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball #dailyquotes
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos
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G @gwill2k.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
With the WBC behind us, I’m now ready to do my final bit of coursework before Opening Day. Only problem, I’ve got 8 days to do it. #booksky
The LAST MANAGER: HOW EARL WEAVER TRICKED, TORMENTED, AND REINVENTED BASEBALL by John W. Miller. Orioles ticket from Sat Sept 2, 2017 vs Toronto Blue Jays used as bookmark.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I’ve covered sexual abuse scandals in unions for years & sadly unions often close ranks and pervert solidarity to defend abusers like Chavez. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...
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Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Lula tells Trump he won’t allow a Neo-Nazi envoy in Brasil! Its top headline story in Brasil. No one in US is talking about it
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Lula Bans Trump Envoy w/ Neo-Nazi Ties from Entering Brasil
Today, Brazilian President Lula announced that he was banning Trump envoy Dennis Beattie from entering Brasil.
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Don Daglow receives the Lifetime Achievement Award #GDC2026
Don Daglow speaking on stage
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Im only 6 followers short of 5,000. Help expand the reach of labor reporting & rebuild the 25,000 follower network we had before Elon destroyed Twitter. paydayreport.com/elon-musk-ki....
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