Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Incorrect with Baseball and Methods to Repair It

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Lifelong baseball devotee, legendary sportswriter, and New York Occasions bestselling biographer Jane Leavy takes readers on an epic journey via the sport that baseball has develop into—our as soon as “nationwide pastime,” now striving to meet up with the occasions—and proposes concepts that may invigorate followers and improve the sport’s cultural influence: a comic book, deeply reported, historic, and heartfelt manifesto.
Jane Leavy has all the time liked the sport of baseball. Her grandmother lived one lengthy, loud foul ball away from Yankee Stadium—the identical grandmother who took younger Jane to Saks Fifth Avenue and purchased her her first baseball glove. It is no coincidence that Leavy was overlaying the sport she liked for the Washington Put up by the late Seventies. As a pioneering feminine sportswriter, she finally turned her expertise to books, penning three of the all-time greatest baseball biographies about three of the all-time greatest gamers in Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth. However when she went trying to find a fourth biographical topic, she realized that baseball had faltered. The Moneyball period of the final 20 years obsessed over information and slowed the sport all the way down to a crawl, usually on the expense of thrills, expertise, and shock. Main League Baseball has begun to deal with points too lengthy ignored by establishing a pitch clock and altering guidelines to hurry up the sport and amplify the motion. The league is investing in developmental youth baseball applications in deprived communities the place participation and fandom have plummeted. Nobody but is aware of easy methods to maintain pitching arms wholesome however Leavy has some concepts.
          But the questions linger: how a lot have these efforts helped and the way rather more will be carried out to enhance the sport and reassert its place in American tradition? Leavy takes a whirlwind tour of the nation looking for solutions to these questions, speaking with luminaries like Joe Torre, Dave Roberts, Jim Palmer, Dusty Baker, Alex Bregman, Yu Darvish, Marquis Grissom, stadium architect Janet Marie Smith, statistical guru Invoice James, fantasy baseball creator Dan Okrent, ageless pitching raconteur Invoice “Spaceman” Lee, and the entertainers behind baseball’s social media phenomenon The Savannah Bananas. What Leavy uncovers shouldn’t be solely what’s flawed with baseball—and easy methods to repair it—but in addition what’s proper with baseball, and the way it illuminates characters, tells tales, and fires up the creativeness of those that find it irresistible and everybody who might uncover it anew.
Writer ‏ : ‎ Grand Central Publishing (September 9, 2025)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0306834669
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0306834660
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.74 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.21 x 9.25 inches