{"product_id":"make-me-commissioner-i-know-whats-wrong-with-baseball-and-how-to-fix-it-hardcover","title":"Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Leavy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling biographer and lifelong baseball devotee takes readers on an epic journey through the game that baseball has become-- a heartfelt manifesto that's perfect for lovers of the sport.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Leavy \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e, and the comic novel \u003ci\u003eSqueeze Play\u003c\/i\u003e, which \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e called \"the best novel ever written about baseball.\" She was a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e from 1979 to 1988, first in the Sports section, then writing for the Style section. She covered baseball, tennis, and the Olympics. She has written for many publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and was anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.24 x 9.17 x 6.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47345149903033,"sku":"9780306834660","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/4309\/4713\/files\/rgv_RYWQ299780306834660.webp?v=1780516231","url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/make-me-commissioner-i-know-whats-wrong-with-baseball-and-how-to-fix-it-hardcover","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}