Oct 15, 2018
Jane Leavy reflects on fraught encounters with Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin in The New Yorker: Jane Leavy Illustration by João Fazenda Last month, forty years after the Southern District court of New York ordered the Yankees to open their clubhouse to female...
Oct 14, 2018
5. “The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created” by Jane Leavy (Harper, nonfiction, on sale Oct. 16) What it’s about: With the World Series just a week away, the time seems right for a bio of the Babe, arguably the game’s biggest star...
Oct 11, 2018
Boston Globe, “23 hot picks for cool fall books” Leavy follows up her outstanding biography of Mickey Mantle with another winner, this time about the most important baseball player of all time. The author covers all aspects of Ruth’s massive life,...
Oct 8, 2018
New Books You Should Read This October Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible. See his picks from last month and next month. The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, by Jane...
Oct 8, 2018
In the News & Observer Is there anything new to learn about Babe Ruth? Countless books have been written about him, probably more than the number of home runs he sent soaring above American League fences. For almost a century, Ruth has been the subject of endless...
