Jane Leavy's Blog, page 5
October 19, 2018
Washington Tour and The Post
How Babe Ruth ushered in the era of the home run and the sports celebrity The mob swarmed around Babe Ruth. In the ninth inning of an exhibition game at Brooklyn’s Dexter Park, just days after the New York Yankees’ triumph in the 1927 World Series, masses of unruly fans were trampling over the field […]
On Tour in Washington D.C.
Check out the upcoming events: October 20 – Library of Congress November 4 – Politics & Prose
October 15, 2018
Daily News: From the Babe to ‘The Big Fella’
He made things bigger just by being part of them. Baseball, the Yankees, even New York – everything grew in his presence. George Herman Ruth Jr. – the Babe, the Bambino, the Sultan of Swat – connected with all of them as easily as his bat connected with the ball. And sent them all soaring. […]
What It Took to Write About Baseball as a Woman
Jane Leavy reflects on fraught encounters with Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin in The New Yorker: Jane Leavy Illustration by João Fazenda Last month, forty years after the Southern District court of New York ordered the Yankees to open their clubhouse to female reporters, the baseball writer Jane Leavy climbed into a black S.U.V. and […]
October 14, 2018
USA Today: 5 Books You Don’t Want to Miss
5. “The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created” by Jane Leavy (Harper, nonfiction, on sale Oct. 16) What it’s about: With the World Series just a week away, the time seems right for a bio of the Babe, arguably the game’s biggest star ever. The buzz: A “sparkling, exemplary sports biography, shedding new light on a […]
October 11, 2018
The Big Fella Reviewed in WSJ, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune
Boston Globe, “23 hot picks for cool fall books” Leavy follows up her outstanding biography of Mickey Mantle with another winner, this time about the most important baseball player of all time. The author covers all aspects of Ruth’s massive life, bringing true empathy and impressive depth of knowledge to her complex subject. See the […]
October 8, 2018
The Big Fella on Vulture’s Best New Books
New Books You Should Read This October Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible. See his picks from last month and next month. The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, by Jane Leavy (Harper, Oct. 16) The baseball superstar, whose outsize body and spirit […]
October 5, 2018
Read an Exclusive Excerpt for The Big Fella at SI.com
"How Babe Ruth Became the Model for the Modern Celebrity Athlete." This story appears in the Oct. 8, 2018, issue of Sports Illustrated.
September 22, 2018
Watch Jane’s Pitch
At the Yankee home game against the Orioles on Friday, September 21, Jane threw out the first pitch! The last homestand of the regular season ended in a win for Babe’s old team, 10-8.
