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THEBIG FELLA

NOW IN PAPERBACK!

From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The
Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth — the man
Roger Angell dubbed “the model for modern celebrity.”

Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents,
and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured
the legend and delivers the man.

AMAZON   |   BARNES & NOBLE  |  INDIEBOUND

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JANE LEAVY

BESTSELLING AUTHOR & JOURNALIST

Jane Leavy is an award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the
Washington Post, known for diving into a subject and emerging with work that is
both meticulously researched and narratively rich. She is the author of the
national bestsellers The Last Boy, Sandy Koufax and the comic novel, Squeeze
Play, called “the best novel ever written about baseball” by Entertainment
Weekly. She lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts.

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OTHER BOOKS


THE LAST BOY

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Time Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year

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SANDY KOUFAX

A New York Times bestseller

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SQUEEZE PLAY

“Will have you singing a rousing chorus of ‘Take Me Out to the Locker Room.’” —
People

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This is one of the best sports biographies I have ever read. Beautifully written
and thoroughly researched, it reveals with stunning insight both the talents and
the demons that drove Mickey Mantle, bringing him to life as never before.

– DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN

on The Last Boy

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Leavy has hit it out of the park… A lot more than a biography. It’s a
consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero’s self perception
distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory… a
remarkably rich portrait.

– TIME

on Sandy Koufax

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Leavy’s hilarious debut is a strong early candidate for MVP of the sports novel
season’s raunchy as stories by Dan Jenkins and Peter Gent, as authentic as
exposes by Jim Bouton and Jim Brosnan, this tale will delight.

– PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

on Squeeze Play


NEWS & EVENTS


WHY ON EARTH DID BOSTON SELL BABE RUTH TO THE YANKEES?

Jan 16, 2020

Read Jane's op-ed in the New York Times on the sale, at the end of 1919, that
changed baseball — and New York City — forever: One hundred years ago on
Christmas Day, typically the slowest news day of the year, George Herman Ruth
Jr. knew there would be a news hole to...

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THE BIG FELLA NOW IN PAPERBACK!

Sep 26, 2019

And will be featured in the October 6, 2019 paperback row highlights from The
New York Times: This detail-packed biography of the baseball legend recounts his
eventful life and tracks the machinations behind his rise to an unprecedented
kind of celebrity in the United...

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