Baseball writer Jane Leavy will appear at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center for an afternoon book talk and signing of her recent publication, “Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix It.”
The talk takes place on Sunday, Nov. 16 at 2 p.m.
Leavy said she hardly recognizes the game she loves anymore. “Relentless pursuit of competitive edges on and off the field has killed the essential charms of the great game, chewed up some of its best talent, and left fans to root for little more than algorithms yielding fractional advantages and analytically dictated efficiencies,” according to a museum press release.
The book offers a behind-the-scenes road trip through the far corners of the baseball world as Leavy sets out to uncover how the game broke, and to find the people and the ideas that might bring it back.
The bestselling author of “Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy,” The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood,” and “The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created,” takes readers from the Cape Cod Baseball League to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, to MLB HQ. She covers the major league, minor league, independent league, and Savannah Banana dugouts to gather old-school wisdom, new-school intelligence, and against-all-odds reasons to hold out hope for baseball’s future.
Autographed copies of the book are available for purchase through the Museum’s website or on the day of the event. Book purchase includes admission to the Museum and program.
About the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center
The Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center is a nonprofit sports education organization on the campus of Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. The Museum’s mission is to preserve and promote the values of perseverance, respect, sportsmanship and excellence through inclusive, culturally diverse, sports-based educational exhibits and programs.
For additional information about the Museum, please visit www.yogiberramuseum.org or call 973.655.2378
About Jane Leavy
Sports writer and reporter Jane Leavy has written five books, all of them about baseball. She was a staff writer at The Washington Post from 1979 to 1988, covering baseball, tennis, and the Olympics for the sports section. She also wrote features for the Style section about sports, politics, and pop culture.
Her work has been widely anthologized most recently in a collection with National Book Award winner Ha Jin, Nobel Prize winner Louise Gluck, and former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.
She lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts.