Jane Leavy's Blog

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Join Michael in his conversation with Jane Leavy about her new book, Make Me Commissioner, I Know What’s Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It which is a behind the scenes road trip through the far corners of the baseball world as she sets out to uncover how the game broke, and to find […]

NY Times Bestselling author Jane Leavy chats about her new book “Make Me Commissioner.” What she still loves about baseball, where the biggest problems are, if we need a salary cap, her interactions with Joe Torre and Sandy Koufax and how the book came to fruition, why baseball is still magical and more. Plus, World […]

Reading the book, though, one gets the sense that rule changes matter far less than the people making them—and that Leavy would agree with that sentiment. Click here to read

On Friday, when the home plate umpire calls the first pitch of the 2025 World Series, savor it. This will be the last championship to be fully adjudicated by human beings. The Automated Ball-Strike (A.B.S.) challenge system, known informally as the robot ump, is coming to your local major league ballpark on Opening Day in […]

To borrow a baseball term of art (okay, a clich��), 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 keeping its ever-looming obsolescence at bay for another decade or three. Leavy���s suggestions […]

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. At wgntv.com

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 managers, such as Jim Palmer and Dave Roberts. This is […]

Jane joined CBS Mornings to discuss her new book, “Make Me Commissioner”

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