
John W. Miller
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Contributing Writer at America Magazine
High school baseball coach, NYT bestselling author of The Last Manager abt Earl Weaver, writer @Americamag, trade @tradedatanews, ex-@wsj, AMDG
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | John W. Miller
He saw ‘Lord of the World’ (1907) as an ‘antidote’ to ‘worldly totalitarianism.’Were you to have asked Pope Francis to name his favorite book, he would probably have said the Bible. Asked for his favorite novel, however, he might have mentioned a dystopian thriller in which the Antichrist is a senator from Vermont. The Holy Father certainly talked it up during his papacy. “I was deeply struck when I read it,” he wrote in “Hope,” his memoir, published in January.
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Feb 28, 2025 |
wsj.com | John W. Miller
What I said to the priest at my last confession is none of your business. It also wasn’t that interesting, so you didn’t miss much. In the usual way of this Catholic sacrament, it started with an acknowledgment of sin and ended—for a believer like me—with God’s forgiveness. James M.
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Feb 28, 2025 |
wsj.com | John W. Miller
When the Black Sox Scandal erupted after eight members of the Chicago White Sox were banned for throwing the 1919 World Series, big league baseball vowed to crack down on gambling once and for all. It was mostly public relations. The talk died down, but the action didn’t. In subsequent decades, the bookies just kept showing up at the ballpark. Gamblers, as legendary former owner Bill Veeck once said, are “good customers of a ball club.”Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Feb 28, 2025 |
sports.yahoo.com | John W. Miller
The Gamblers and Hustlers That Made Baseball’s Greatest ManagerThe Gamblers and Hustlers That Made Baseball’s Greatest ManagerEarl Weaver learned about playing the odds from his bookmaker uncle. Those lessons would turn him into a pioneer of modern analytics.
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Aug 28, 2024 |
wsj.com | John W. Miller
Just as Mr. Saban loomed over college football for a generation, he looms over “The Price,” a chronicle of the characters and controversies that have animated college football in recent years. Armen Keteyian and John Talty, both veteran journalists, call Mr. Saban the “Old King,” and they argue that the era in which he flourished is slipping away as a new crew of coaches and players scramble for success.
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