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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.
The story of baseball is in the people that make the numbers, not in the numbers alone. Leavy gets it, and her book is a home run. If you love baseball, don’t miss it.
— Tara Sullivan, Boston Globe
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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: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, The Last Boy Book: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood , Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy 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
SABR Seymour Medal Winner
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
New York Times bestseller
New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Time Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year
New York Times bestseller
“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 Last Boy
— 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 is an elite spitballer”: The Atlantic’s review of ‘Commissioner’
To borrow a baseball term of art (okay, a cliché), Jane Leavy is an elite spitballer. No one is better built than Leavy, a crafty veteran sportswriter, for between-innings repartee, wry asides, and tossed-off ideas for improving her beloved sport—and maybe even...