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Coming October 16

From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth—the man Roger Angell dubbed “the model for modern celebrity.”

Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man.

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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 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.

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Other Books

The Last Boy

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Time Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year

Sandy Koufax

A New York Times bestseller

Squeeze Play

“Will have you singing a rousing chorus of ‘Take Me Out to the Locker Room.’” – People

– Doris Kearns Goodwin

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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

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Leavy’s hilarious debut is a strong early candidate for MVP of the sports novel season…As raunchy as stories by Dan Jenkins and Peter Gent, as authentic as exposes by Jim Bouton and Jim Brosnin, this tale will delight.

– Publishers Weekly

News & Events

Would the Babe Still Be a Star?

Apr 19, 2018

In an interview with Smithsonian Magazine, Jane says the Bambino would be as big a personality as he was in his own time: How would Ruth have fared in today’s world, both in and out of the ball park? Off the field, he’d have protectors to shield him against his own...

15 Best Books on Baseball to Read

Mar 30, 2018

Signature-Reads.com selected Sandy Koufax as one of the 15 books to read before the start of baseball season. They write: Koufax’s name is incredibly well known, but the player is also incredibly private. Jane Leavy does all baseball-fans a service by offering this...