Make Me Commissioner
I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It
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Make Me Commissioner
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Jane Leavy
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Jane Leavy
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A proposito di questo titolo
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.
Recensioni della critica
“No one makes me laugh and think and nod my head yes more than Jane Leavy when she is writing about baseball, the sport we both love. Fat chance they'll ever let her become commissioner, but her combination of joy, humor, intelligence, deep historical knowledge, and common sense about how to save the game is precisely what it needs.”—David Maraniss, author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
“Jane Leavy loves baseball. I love Leavy writing about baseball. On the heels of her definitive bios of all-time greats—Koufax, Mantle, and Ruth—Leavy is back to remind us why baseball is the best game and lovingly sculpts solutions to fix the national pastime. Make Me Commissioner completes Leavy's Rushmore Four on the top shelf of my baseball book collection.”—Dan Shaughnessy, author of The Curse of the Bambino and Francona
“Baseball’s broken, but don’t worry—Jane Leavy’s got the duct tape, WD-40, and a few wild ideas to fix it. A hysterical—yet practical!—take on saving America’s pastime before it turns into America’s nap time. Make her commissioner!”—Gish Jen, author of The Resisters and Bad Bad Girl
“As a big-league storyteller, Jane Leavy has all the tools: wise-ass sense of humor, eye for detail, knack for dialogue, a major address book of large personalities—and she knows what she’s talking about. The story she makes so lively, about what has gone wrong with what used to be our national pastime, just may be a story about our nation, too.”—Robert Pinsky, three-time United States Poet Laureate
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