THEBIG FELLA

NOW AVAILABLE!

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

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The Last Boy

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

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Sandy Koufax

A New York Times bestseller

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Squeeze Play

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

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This is one of the best sports biographies I have ever read. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, it reveals with stunning insight both the talents and the demons that drove Mickey Mantle, bringing him to life as never before.

– Doris Kearns Goodwin

on The Last Boy

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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

on Sandy Koufax

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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 Brosnan, this tale will delight.

– Publishers Weekly

on Squeeze Play

News & Events

Live with WYPR

Jan 29, 2019

Today, a conversation about one of the most fascinating figures, not only in baseball history, but in American history.  George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr. was born and raised in Baltimore,  graduated from the school of hard knocks, and evolved into...

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This Week’s Q+A

Jan 28, 2019

Q&A with Jane Leavy Author and journalist Jane Leavy discusses her book, The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, about the life and times of the legendary baseball player. Air date: January 27, 2019

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