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“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
WGN: Jane Leavy Joins Morning News to Help Beat Baseball’s Boredom
Former Washington Post sportswriter and Sports biographer Jane Leavy goes on a behind the scenes road trip through the far corners of the baseball world to uncover how the game broke, and to find the people and the ideas that just might bring it back....
Starred Review from Publishers Weekly for “Make Me Commissioner”
Sports reporter Leavy provides a fervent critique of the current state of baseball […] The narrative is laced with Leavy’s humor and lifelong passion for the sport (she wrote her first baseball story at 10 years old) and informed by conversations with star players and...
Debating the “human element” on CBS Mornings Plus
Jane joined CBS Mornings to discuss her new book, "Make Me Commissioner" https://youtube.com/shorts/B5jC6PlLa50?feature=share
NBC 4 in DC: What’s wrong with baseball? Former Washington Post sports writer shares how to fix it
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
