This could be you. You could live like James. You just have to choose to.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Oh, hey, look. It's me!

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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!

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!

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...

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

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.

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

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.

“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

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

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

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...

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

Don Daglow receives the Lifetime Achievement Award #GDC2026

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....

The Earls. We name them after the greatest 0’s manager Earl Weaver. Known for not taking shit and kicking dirt.

A few snapshots from today's #SABRDay proceedings. Some great presentations. See yinz again in May!

Almost back to baseball season, folks, even if it doesn't look like it outside. And to help you get in the mood, less than one week until the next SABR Day at PNC Park. Admission $5, tentative agenda attached.

If you are a journalist who speaks out against the fascist Trump administration I’m sorry to say that it’s time to get your affairs in order. They’re doing a trial run arresting Black journalists right now and it’s only a matter of time until they come for all of us. Wake up. Speak out.

Join us for SABR Day on Saturday, January 31! We have dozens of baseball events scheduled all over North America; all fans are welcome to attend, virtually or in-person: sabr.org/latest/join-...

Please take a moment to remember Hall of Famers Stan Musial and Earl Weaver who passed away on this date 13 years ago.

Finished this audiobook. It was good. I always want more depth but that's a me problem not the book's problem.

I was thrilled to arrive home from our holiday earlier this week to find that this gorgeous thing had arrived from @thetwinbill.bsky.social I'm grateful! So nice to think of the book reaching some readers who are on its wavelength.

Things I learned today from the book about Earl Weaver: what bench jockeying is and the scene in Bull Durham where Costner fights with the ump is based on Weaver.

Earl Weaver, circa 1979 Baltimore #Orioles #Baseball

My patience has paid off and now I'm listening to a book about the best baseball manager ever: Earl Weaver.

Earl Weaver was the first non-Yankee manager to win three consecutive pennants since the 1930s.

Happy World Cup year

The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball (2025) by John W. Miller A delightful look at one of the most important and fun figures in baseball history.

If anyone is looking to make a holiday donation, the scholarship in my nephew’s name is a fine choice. gofund.me/062dcc636

Grateful for this. Thank you O's fans for reading/buying/supporting the book! www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2025/12/26/t...

Grateful for this. Thank you O's fans for reading/buying/supporting the book! www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/2025/12/26/t...

Best of 2025: @jmjournalist.bsky.social

One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

I finished this last week and this book is so much fun there should probably be some FDA guidance on how much of it is safe to consume in one 24-hour period

60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

(Publisher's Note: This article was public on the blog Moundsville.org and has been shared with LEDE News by the author.) Every December, until around 40 years ago, town leaders in Moundsville, WV erected a giant Christmas tree on top of the Grave Creek Mound. ledenews.com/was-it-ok-to...

This book is great!

That’s a very good call…

“The Last Manager” wins Casey Award as best baseball book of 2025. Awarded annually by Spitball, America’s best literary baseball magazine. I loved getting the call: “John, this is Mike Shannon, editor of Spitball Magazine…”

“The Last Manager” wins Casey Award as best baseball book of 2025. Awarded annually by Spitball, America’s best literary baseball magazine. I loved getting the call: “John, this is Mike Shannon, editor of Spitball Magazine…”