WATCH: The Return of the Great American Writers Series

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...

Forbes, Newsday and The Voice of San Diego

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...

The theme music behind the Curse of the Bambino

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...
Washington Tour and The Post

Washington Tour and The Post

How Babe Ruth ushered in the era of the home run and the sports celebrity The mob swarmed around Babe Ruth. In the ninth inning of an exhibition game at Brooklyn’s Dexter Park, just days after the New York Yankees’ triumph in the 1927 World Series, masses of...

Daily News: From the Babe to ‘The Big Fella’

He made things bigger just by being part of them. Baseball, the Yankees, even New York – everything grew in his presence. George Herman Ruth Jr. – the Babe, the Bambino, the Sultan of Swat – connected with all of them as easily as his bat connected with the...