THEBIG FELLA
NOW IN PAPERBACK!
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
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– Doris Kearns Goodwin
on The Last Boy
– Time
on Sandy Koufax
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 Brosnan, this tale will delight.
– Publishers Weekly
on Squeeze Play
News & Events
Why on Earth Did Boston Sell Babe Ruth to the Yankees?
Read Jane's op-ed in the New York Times on the sale, at the end of 1919, that changed baseball — and New York City — forever: One hundred years ago on Christmas Day, typically the slowest news day of the year, George Herman Ruth Jr. knew there would be a news hole to...
The Big Fella Now in Paperback!
And will be featured in the October 6, 2019 paperback row highlights from The New York Times: This detail-packed biography of the baseball legend recounts his eventful life and tracks the machinations behind his rise to an unprecedented kind of celebrity in the United...