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WAMC The Roundtable Interview with Joe Donahue

Baseball is broken—or at least, Sportswriter Jane Leavy thinks so. In her book, "Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It," she hops into the dugouts, analytics labs, minor-league towns, and boardrooms to diagnose what’s gone wrong...

Ron Kaplan’s The Bookshelf Conversation #200: Jane Leavy

I don’t know when it started or ended but Topps used to reserve cards ending in double-00 for the superstars of the game. Mays, Mantle, Koufax, Carew, Seaver, and Reggie have all appeared multiple times. So I felt it only appropriate to follow their lead and save the...

Washington Post: 3 audiobooks for cinephiles, baseball fans and more

The title of Leavy’s book presents an immodest proposal, but one which could actually reverse the decline of baseball. Author of first-rate biographies of Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth, Leavy sees the game’s loss of popularity as, in part, the result of...

Joe Blogs: The Importance of Fairy Dust

Watch Jane and Joe Posnanski on JoeBlogs and then read Jane's essay just for JoeBlogs readers about Make Me Commissioner. You can also subscribe to listen on The Poscast https://www.youtube.com/live/4yWvIIrB2RY