Would the Babe Still Be a Star?

Apr 19, 2018

Award-winning sportswriter Jane Leavy tells Smithsonian Magazine that the Bambino would be as big a personality as he was in his own time.

15 Best Books on Baseball to Read

Mar 30, 2018

Signature-Reads.com selected Sandy Koufax as one of the 15 books to read before the start of baseball season. They write: Koufax’s name is incredibly well known, but the player is also incredibly private. Jane Leavy does all baseball-fans a service by offering...

The Stacks Chat

Mar 10, 2018

Originally published in the Bronx Banter blog in 2003, this interview with Alex Belth was recently added to The Stacks Reader. Alex: Did you always want to be a sportswriter? Jane: I wanted to be a sportswriter because I wanted to be a writer, and a teacher once told...

Jane Leavy… in Her Own Words

Jan 1, 2014

In his 1973 book “No Cheering in the Press Box,” author Jerome Holtzman chronicled the lives of the greatest sports journalists of his generation. Four decades later, students at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism are updating...

‘Frontline’ Documentary on NFL Premieres Tonight on PBS

Oct 8, 2013

League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussions Crisis premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on PBS. The National Football League, a multibillion-dollar commercial juggernaut, presides over America’s indisputable national pastime. But the NFL is under assault: thousands of...

Sports Night: Talkin’ Baseball

Mar 21, 2013

Moderated by Tim Wendel (Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball and America Forever), four writers talk about their lives in and around sports: Frank Deford (Over Time: My Life As A Sportswriter), John Grisham (Calico Joe), Jane Leavy (The Last Boy:...