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A New York Times bestselling biographer and lifelong baseball devotee takes readers on an epic journey through the game that baseball has become — a heartfelt manifesto that’s perfect for lovers of the sport.
Jane Leavy may not be MLB’s next commissioner, but readers will come away wishing she would be.
— Booklist (starred review)
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Jane Leavy
BestSelling Author & JOURNALIST
Jane Leavy is an award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post, known for diving into a subject and emerging with work that is both meticulously researched and narratively rich. She is the author of the national bestsellers The Big Fella, The Last Boy, Sandy Koufax and the comic novel, Squeeze Play, called “the best novel ever written about baseball” by Entertainment Weekly. She lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts.
Other Books
The Big Fella
SABR Seymour Medal Winner
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
New York Times bestseller
The Last Boy
New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Time Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year
Sandy Koufax
New York Times bestseller
Squeeze Play
“Will have you singing a rousing chorus of ‘Take Me Out to the Locker Room.’” — People
Meticulously researched over eight years and richly detailed, it’s as close as we’ll ever come to meeting the legend and watching him in action… a must-read for Babe Ruth fans, baseball history buffs, and collectors. Above all, it is a major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling.
– FORBES
on The Big Fella
– Doris Kearns Goodwin
on The Last Boy
Leavy has hit it out of the park… A lot more than a biography. It’s a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero’s self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory… a remarkably rich portrait.
– Time
on Sandy Koufax
News & Events
Jane to be featured in Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft
In this book of essays, over 40 successful writers in varied fields —poetry, science, the performing and visual arts, psychoanalysis, journalism, literature and more— explore what drives them to write, and to work at their craft. In contributions arranged under three...