Jane Leavy is the author of theNew York Times bestsellers The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood and Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, and the comic novel Squeeze Play, which Entertainment Weekly called “the best novel ever written about baseball.”
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, called Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft (Routledge, July 28, 2025.)
Books in order of publication:
Squeeze Play: A Witty and Heartbreaking Novel About a Female Sportswriter Covering Baseball’s Worst Team – 1990
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy – 2002
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood – 2010
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created – 2018
Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix It – 2025
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