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On the Ball Interview (The Vanderbilt Sports & Society Podcast)
Legendary sportswriter and bestselling author Jane Leavy joins the show to discuss her acclaimed new book: “Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix It. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLwSXoeu6Ks
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...
“Jane is an elite spitballer”: The Atlantic’s review of ‘Commissioner’
To borrow a baseball term of art (okay, a cliché), Jane Leavy is an elite spitballer. No one is better built than Leavy, a crafty veteran sportswriter, for between-innings repartee, wry asides, and tossed-off ideas for improving her beloved sport—and maybe even...
BaseballBiz on Deck Podcast: Loving the Game & Making it Better
Breakfast with 2 friends from Brooklyn, Joe Torre & Sandy Koufax, they unlocked what was different in the game today – That’s the story
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
The Scott Jackson Show Podcast
Jane Leavy also joins us to talk Major League Baseball playoffs, and tell us all about her new book to fix baseball.
Bmore Baseball Podcast Interview: Episode 33
The Bmore Baseball Podcast with Orioles Hall of Famer Mike Bordick and Sportscaster Jerry Coleman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Yor9sMUsQ
Brodie Brazil: How to SAVE MLB for the next generations
Jane sits down with the Bay Area sportscaster to discuss the new book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg6pHqkbfCo
