What's Wrong with Baseball? Jane Leavy wants to be the Commissioner!

𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐲 is the author of 3 New York Times bestselling baseball biographies: 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐊𝐨𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐱: A Lefty’s Legacy; 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐨𝐲: Mickey Mantle & The End of America’s Childhood; AND…𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚: Babe Ruth & The World He Created. Her current book is "𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐌𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫, 𝐈 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐅𝐢𝐱 𝐈𝐭” which is now the talk of baseball. In this interview (spicy language...listener beware!) we discuss: -Do you have a favorite team? -How did your love of baseball germinate & what were your earliest baseball memories? -How did you become the staff writer for the Washington Post from 1979 to 1988, a decidedly male dominant position back then, why did you leave and what did you spend most of your time doing after you left? -You wrote books about 3 baseball legends. What made you choose Mantle, Ruth & Koufax to write about? -Analytics had become the story of the game, not the people who play it. Is that one reason or the main reason why you struggled to come up with a 4th baseball legend to write about? -What inspired & precipitated you wanting to write about making you the Commissioner of baseball? -Which baseball notables did you talk to while writing Make Me Commissioner & what did you discover from them is wrong with baseball? -How serious would you be if you were actually asked to be the Commissioner of Baseball. -Wall St Journal estimated only 17 min & 58 secs of action in a 3 hr game -16 teams in 1960. 24 team in 1969. 30 teams now. Are there too many teams and does that mean what the Yankees did winning 27 World Series will never be matched? -Who are you favorite ballplayers you met & why? -What are some of your favorite baseball stories? -Who else would be on your bucket list to write about? -How do you feel about big market teams buying their way to a World Series…or at least TRYING to? #baseball #playbaseball #baseballstories