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Barcode30293102242141
LocationClark County
Call No796.357 Leav
TitleMake me commissioner : I know what's wrong with baseball and how to fix it / Jane Leavy.
AuthorLeavy, Jane, author.
CollectionNF
Total Circ0
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102242141796.357 Leav11/9/2025 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780306834660 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0306834669 (hardcover)
Personal Name Leavy, Jane, author.
Title Statement Make me commissioner : I know what's wrong with baseball and how to fix it / Jane Leavy.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2025.
Physical Description viii, 369 pages ; 24 cm.
Formatted Contents Note In the beginning -- Cape Cod part I: Eldredge Park, Orleans, Massachusetts. Janie gets schooled -- Room 311 -- Activating J. P.'s backside -- Yu too -- Making God laugh -- Going bananas -- Old school-ish -- Paid to dream -- Black out -- Rich Hill's middle finger -- A way to do things -- Dipped in shit -- Jackie's place -- Cape Cod part II: Eldredge Park, July 29, 2023. The problem with perfection -- He is so that guy -- Other ways of knowing -- Boychik -- Infidels at the gate -- Cape Cod part III: Eldredge Park, August 12, 2023. Postscript.
Summary, Etc. 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 Post by the late 1970s. As a pioneering female sportswriter, she eventually turned her talent to books, penning three of the all-time best baseball biographies about three of the all-time best players: Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth. But when she went searching for a fourth biographical subject, she realized that baseball had faltered. The Moneyball era of the last two decades obsessed over data and slowed the game down to a crawl, often at the expense of thrills, skills, and surprise. Major League Baseball has begun to address issues too long ignored, yet the questions linger: how much have these efforts helped to improve the game and reassert its place in American culture? Leavy takes a whirlwind tour of the country seeking answers to these questions, talking with luminaries like Joe Torre, Dave Roberts, Jim Palmer, Dusty Baker, and more. What Leavy uncovers is not only what's wrong with baseball--and how to fix it--but also what's right with baseball, and how it illuminates characters, tells stories, and fires up the imagination of those who love it and everyone who could discover it anew.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Baseball History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Baseball Social aspects.
Index Term-Genre/Form Informational works.

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