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Jane Leavy, a former Washington Post sports writer, shares what’s wrong with baseball and how she would fix it in her book “Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It.” Video here if story fails to load

Jane Leavy knows baseball. And she really 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 is a skillful mix...

A.J. Pierzynski, Erik Kratz and Scott Braun welcome Jane Leavy as shepreviews her new book “Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It” - out now!

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...

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...

Scott Simon’s Open Book: Jane Leavy on MAKE ME COMMISSIONER - How she would change baseball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrtf5_7P-PE

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,...

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,...

Few writers have illuminated baseball’s legends with the depth, rigor, and heart of renowned sports journalist and author Jane Leavy. From Sandy Koufax to Mickey Mantle to Babe Ruth, her biographies of the game’s greatest figures don’t just recount their lives — they...