John W. Miller

John W. Miller

John W. Miller is a writer and baseball coach based in Pittsburgh. His book, The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball (Simon & Schuster) releases in March 2025. 

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Longtime LA Dodgers announcer Vin Scully appears on a screen June 26, 2014, as the Dodgers took on the St. Louis Cardinals at Dodger Stadium. Scully is the focus of "Perfect Eloquence," a new collection of essays. (Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-2.0/Ken Lund)

'Perfect Eloquence' enshrines Vin Scully in baseball canon

In Perfect Eloquence, journalist Tom Hoffarth has assembled an entertaining, detailed and assuming history of Vin Scully's long, charmed life in the form of 67 essays by people who knew him.

A woman holds this sign as members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) hold a news conference in front of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Aug. 20, 2018, several days after a Pennsylvania grand jury released a stinging report that said more than 300 priests sexually abused more than 1,000 children during the course of several decades. (CNS/Chaz Muth)

Why I declined to join my diocesan sex abuse review board

In my own discernment, I talked to journalists who have covered the church, priest friends and my therapist about the offer. In the end, I decided that my commitment to transparency outweighed the value I could bring to the board.

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