Sep 11, 2025
“The human mind has a relentless desire to put itself out of business.” Our new favorite guest Jane Leavy joins the show to tell us why she should be the commissioner of Major League Baseball. By the end of the interview, we realize she should replace...
Sep 10, 2025
In 2019, author JANE LEAVY sat down at breakfast with baseball greats JOE TORRE and SANDY KOUFAX prior to MARIANO RIVERA’s Baseball HOF induction ceremony in Cooperstown, NY. During their conversation, Torre (an ex-catcher and...
Sep 10, 2025
Jane Leavy did not talk to Rob Manfred for her new book “Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How To Fix It,” even though it is a bid to replace the commissioner of Major League Baseball when Manfred steps down in — what he has...
Sep 10, 2025
Scott Simon’s Open Book: Jane Leavy on MAKE ME COMMISSIONER – How she would change...
Sep 9, 2025
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,...
Sep 9, 2025
Jane Leavy is the New York Times best-selling author of Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, and The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created. She is also the author of the comic novel Squeeze Play,...
