Jane Leavy knows baseball. And she loves baseball. She’s a former sportswriter and author of best-sellers about Sandy Koufax and Mickey Mantle. Her new book is Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It. The book mixes history, memoir, personal connections, and insights based on watching innumerable games as a lifetime fan. She writes about the way baseball has been affected by changes in technology, from “moneyball” to television cameras intruding on the playing field, changes in ownership from families to billionaires, even the way stadiums are designed all have affected baseball. And she writes about what it will take to get a new generation of fans to fall in love with the game.
