Nov 30, 2018
Tom Shieber, senior curator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, traced back a rare clip of Ruth and Gehrig, unearthed at an exhibit on pre-World War II life at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, to their 1927 barnstorming tour covered in...
Nov 17, 2018
There are some things about Babe Ruth, beyond his mammoth home runs and World Series titles, that cannot be measured – among them his frequent trips to orphanages and hospitals, and his willingness to play alongside black ballplayers.”He carried this...
Nov 15, 2018
Catch these clips from the MLB Network On Hot Stove: With Chris Russo from Studio K With Brian Kenney
Nov 10, 2018
The City Club of San Diego, San Diego Padres & San Diego’s Central Library proudly presented the return of The Great American Writers Series featuring Jane Leavy on November 8, 2018. Held in the Neil Morgan Auditorium of the San Diego Central Library and...
Oct 29, 2018
Forbes: Epic Babe Ruth Bio By Jane Leavy Captures His Life And Times Jane Leavy’s second book, a critically acclaimed, New York Times best-selling biography of Mickey Mantle in 2010, has sold 211,000 copies in hardback and 60,000 in paperback. Such commercial...
Oct 21, 2018
Jane Leavy, the author of New York Times bestsellers Sandy Koufax, a Lefty’s Legacy, and The Last Boy, Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, takes on baseball’s greatest legend in The Big Fella, a biography of Babe Ruth published this...