Oct 31, 2011
Grantland contributor Jane Leavy spent the past decade writing sports biographies about Sandy Koufax and Mickey Mantle (recently released in paperback). We talked about Koufax and Mantle, Jane’s experiences in being part of the first wave of female sports...
Oct 31, 2011
By JANE LEAVY | New York Times | October 22, 2011 Among the games people play, baseball is distinguished by the preservation of landmark numbers — 56, .367, 2,632, 4,256. But Major League Baseball does precious little to preserve the places where the game once...
Aug 16, 2011
Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Jeff Garlin has Sandy Koufax in his library: I’m a Chicago Cubs fan — I was born there — and the framing of this book is a perfect game he pitched against the Cubs in Dodger Stadium. I loved Sandy Koufax. In a world where athletes...
Jul 25, 2011
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Allen Barra selects Squeeze Play as one of the five best novels that “take fiction out to the ballgame”: A.B. Berkowitz—the “A” is for Ariadne—writes for the mythical Washington Tribune and...
Jul 21, 2011
Steve Buckley of the Boston Herald shares his list of summer reads. His five picks include The Last Boyi: Virtually everyone who follows baseball (and a lot of people who don’t) has taken a course in Mickey Mantle 101: truly great baseball player, beset with...
Jul 5, 2011
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood This gripping tale of the American legend blends myth and fact to create a nuanced portrait of The Mick Ross Atkin | Christian Science Monitor | July 2, 2011 One wouldn’t think that in the...
