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Pioneer Institute hosts Jane on The Learning Curve Podcast
In this week’s episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts U-Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng and Pioneer Senior Fellow Charlie Chieppo interview award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jane Leavy. Ms. Leavy discusses her lifelong love of baseball, and...
The Book of Joe podcast welcomes Jane Leavy
Hosts Joe Maddon and Tom Verducci welcome longtime sportswriter and NY Times best selling author Jane Leavy to discuss her latest book
Leavy responds to MLB Commissioner retirement, new proposal in Boston Globe
“The preeminent baseball biographer’s forthcoming book manages to see precisely what Manfred cannot.”
WRKF Talk Louisiana: Mickey Mantle
Jane Leavy talks the life and career of Mickey Mantle on the anniversary of his death. Click here to listen
‘Make Me Commissioner’ Reviewed in ‘The Boston Globe’
Tara Sullivan wrties: "The opportunity to read Leavy’s prose about baseball is a gift to an audience already enthralled by her previous masterpieces… The personal touch makes this one different but no less impactful, infused by a love affair with the game that began...
Jane to be featured in Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft
In this book of essays, over 40 successful writers in varied fields —poetry, science, the performing and visual arts, psychoanalysis, journalism, literature and more— explore what drives them to write, and to work at their craft. In contributions arranged under three...
Why on Earth Did Boston Sell Babe Ruth to the Yankees?
Read Jane's op-ed in the New York Times on the sale, at the end of 1919, that changed baseball — and New York City — forever: One hundred years ago on Christmas Day, typically the slowest news day of the year, George Herman Ruth Jr. knew there would be a news hole to...
The Big Fella Now in Paperback!
And will be featured in the October 6, 2019 paperback row highlights from The New York Times: This detail-packed biography of the baseball legend recounts his eventful life and tracks the machinations behind his rise to an unprecedented kind of celebrity in the United...
Babe Ruth’s Tampa Home Run Analyzed
On the 100th anniversary of Babe Ruth's historic home run in Tampa, several scholars are asking if it ever went the 587 feet quoted on a billboard in the spot it supposedly landed, near the University of Tampa. If you were one of 4,300 at Plant Field on April 4, 1919,...
Live with WYPR
Today, a conversation about one of the most fascinating figures, not only in baseball history, but in American history. George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr. was born and raised in Baltimore, graduated from the school of hard knocks, and evolved into...