Oct 15, 2025
Legendary sportswriter and bestselling author Jane Leavy joins the show to discuss her acclaimed new book: “Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix...
Oct 15, 2025
Baseball is broken—or at least, Sportswriter Jane Leavy thinks so. In her book, “Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It,” she hops into the dugouts, analytics labs, minor-league towns, and boardrooms to diagnose...
Oct 13, 2025
I don’t know when it started or ended but Topps used to reserve cards ending in double-00 for the superstars of the game. Mays, Mantle, Koufax, Carew, Seaver, and Reggie have all appeared multiple times. So I felt it only appropriate to follow their lead and save the...
Oct 11, 2025
The title of Leavy’s book presents an immodest proposal, but one which could actually reverse the decline of baseball. Author of first-rate biographies of Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth, Leavy sees the game’s loss of popularity as, in part, the result of...
Oct 9, 2025
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...
