# Jane Leavy

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Hang Up and Listen - The Round Mound of Rebound and the Cat Litter Scientist Edition

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Shirley Wang to talk about her dad’s friendship with Charles Barkley. Jane Leavy also joins to discuss her Babe Ruth biography The Big Fella, and ESPN’s Joel Anderson helps assess the Mike Tyson-Buster Douglas documentary 42 to 1. Lin Wang and Charles Bar…

Jane LeavY — Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It - with Mike Rizzo and Stefan Fatsis

Jane Leavy has always loved baseball. Her grandmother lived one long, loud foul ball away from Yankee Stadium--the same grandmother who took young Jane to Saks Fifth Avenue and bought her her first baseball glove. It's no coincidence that Leavy was covering the game she loved for the Washington Pos…

Driven to Write Panel - with Julius Hobson, Jane Leavy, Robert Pinsky & Nazila Fathi

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 headings-- "Models and Mentor…

Jane Leavy on Sandy Koufax

Jane Leavy grew up on Long Island, where she pitched briefly and poorly for the Blue Jays of the Roslyn Long Island Little League. She worshipped Mickey Mantle from the second-floor ballroom in the Concourse Plaza Hotel, up the street from Yankee Stadium, where her grandmother’s synagogue held serv…

3/6/26. 2 books about Mickey Mantle

Part One: Tony Castro, author of 'Micky and Billy: The Glory and Tragedy of a Yankee Friendship." Part Two: from 2010- an excerpt from a conversation with Jane Leavy, author of "The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood."

BronxTalk: 2026 MLB Season Preview

This week's BronxTalk previews the 2026 baseball season, focusing on the Yankees, the Mets, and an overview of the modern game of Major League Baseball.  The guests are MLB official scorer, author, and SiriusXM update host Howie Karpin, and best-selling baseball author Jane Leavy.  Hosted by Gary A…

NYT-Bestseller Jane Leavy on Baseball Great Sandy Koufax

In this week’s episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts Prof. Albert Cheng of Ohio State University and Pioneer Senior Fellow Charlie Chieppo speak with NYT-bestselling author Jane Leavy about Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax. She traces his journey from a Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn to becoming …

The Learning Curve: NYT-Bestseller Jane Leavy on Baseball Great Sandy Koufax

In this week’s episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts Prof. Albert Cheng of Ohio State University and Pioneer Senior Fellow Charlie Chieppo speak with NYT-bestselling author Jane Leavy about Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax. She traces his journey from a Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn to becoming …

The first ever PosCast LIVE! With Jane Leavy

After the usual PosCast technical difficulties, Joe finally went live! kicking off our new series, The PosCast Live. Featuring special guest and legendary baseball writer Jane Leavy, for a lively conversation about her new book Make Me Commissioner. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discus…