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Tim Weston @timweston.com · 14/12/2025

Back to reading “Make Me Commissioner” by Jane Leavy (@ballgirl.bsky.social) after about four weeks off to read a new release and a four-book series (I was traveling for Thanksgiving so I focused on Kindle books for lighter packing). #BookSky #AmReading

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Where to find me for #SABR Day chapter celebrations. Details and links at janeleavy.com, but the time to sign up is *now*

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

CAMDEN YARDS - 2023 // I met Dusty Baker in the visiting dugout in Camden Yards two days after they celebrated their 2023 World Championship at the White House. “He looked presidential as fuck,” said hitting coach Jason Kanzler.

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Jason Kyle Howard @jasonkylehoward.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

As a cradle baseball fan I loved talking with the great sportswriter @ballgirl.bsky.social about her new book for @salon.com. Make her commissioner @mlb.com! www.salon.com/2025/11/03/j...

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One writer’s plan to rescue baseball from itself

In "Make Me Commissioner," Jane Leavy breaks down how the sport lost its emotional core, and how to get it back.

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SportsAngle @sportsangle.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Goodwill find today: I borrowed @ballgirl.bsky.social’s amazing book on Sandy Koufax years ago from @mikepetriello.bsky.social and loved it, thrilled to have my own copy. Can’t wait to read it again.

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Come see about me. In conversation with Yogi's granddaughter Lindsay Berra. It will be fun.

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Rachael Hamlet @karmamylanta.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Kids under 12 admitted for free. H/t @ballgirl.bsky.social

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

And you wrote a great piece about it...

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Tim Weston @timweston.com · 08/11/2025

#AmReading “Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It,” by Jane Leavy (@ballgirl.bsky.social) #BookSky bookshop.org/p/books/make...

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Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It

I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

If it's good enough for the Politics & Prose holiday catalogue...

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Me + Linda Robertson of the Miami Herald at the Miami Book Fairon November 22. Meet us there! Details here: www.miamibookfair.com/event/take-m...

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Thank you Jason for this lovely interview.

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travelincatdoc dvm jd @travelincatdoc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

My mother loved your Koufax book

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I've reached the top of the queue, and your book is "in transit" to my library branch. I've been refreshing my holds page all weekend. I can't wait to read it.

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

if you feel moved to do so please post a review on amazon or goodreads. they mean more than you know.

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Scott McCabe @scottdmccabe.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

in the wake of that epic world series, i whole heartedly recommend reading jane’s new book to understand what made that series so great

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Scott McCabe @scottdmccabe.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

pls give my regards to bette the dog!

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GW @gwoltjer.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I will happily work as an underling when you become commissioner. I just want to be close to this marvelous game. What an incredible postseason.

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Rich Kimball @richkimball.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We talk with @ballgirl.bsky.social about her new book, MAKE ME COMMISSIONER, visit with singer Kathy Mattea, discuss AI with cybersecurity expert @rahulpowar.bsky.social, and Food Coma’s Joe Ricchio has suggestions for the best pizza, all on the latest Downtown: richkimbally.podbean.com

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Liz - High and Inside @lizzierie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I haven’t even read it yet, but I already know I’m going to love @ballgirl.bsky.social’s new book and want to share with all my baseball buddies not on this conference call 🙏🙏

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I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It

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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Some new and or/upcoming nonfiction books that caught my eye. I thought they might appeal to some of you as well. All reviews in Alt Text taken from @ala-booklist.bsky.social. First up, MAKE ME COMMISSIONER from sports biographer @ballgirl.bsky.social. Got a starred review - sounds fantastic.

Leavy’s biographies of legends Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth made her one of the sport’s great historians. In her latest, she shifts her gaze to baseball’s present and its murky future. Leavy is pretty succinct in her ambitions: Make Me Commissioner. A job application, however, this is not. Leavy has crafted a treatise on how baseball has lost its claim to the title of “America’s game.” As she crisscrosses the country, she visits small-town ballparks, dancing with the entertainment/baseball juggernaut, the Savannah Bananas. She also meets with some of the top mathematical minds forging the glut of stats into a winning formula—truly the new “moneyball.” As baseball wanes slightly in popularity, Leavy also looks at the development pipeline, where expensive travel systems have pushed out many African American players, leading to the historically low percentages of Black players in Major League Baseball (MLB). In many ways, Leavy is preaching to the converted: those who have read her previous books or followed her newspaper writing and those who believe in baseball’s great history and are worried about its future as technology begins to overtake instinct. Leavy may not be MLB’s next commissioner, but readers will come away wishing she would be.

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

thank you for your words. if you feel moved to do so, please post a review. they matter!

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Mary Shea @baseballmary.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I loved reading this book!

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

send me a dm. i'm eager to hear!

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

thank you! if you're moved to do do please post a review on amazon or goodreads. they matter.

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

PS she's already showing the effects of no baseball and seasonal affective disorder. your regards will cheer her up...

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

thank you for spreading the word. if you are moved to do can you post a review on amazon or goodreads?

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

That game 7 is why I want to be commissioner. Baseball at its best, as it was last night, needs to be nurtured, protected, and promoted to a new generation of fans, who will learn how the game marries the exquisite and the excruciating in unparalled and unexpected ways if just let it.

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

My journey to rediscover the soul of baseball in "Make Me Commissioner" took me Classic Auto Group Park, home of the Cleveland Guardians Class A Lake County Captains, where I caught up with Chase DeLauter [left], MVP of the Cape League in 2021 and the 16th pick in the 2022 draft.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Hello and welcome back to baseball, the sport where 9 men on one team must attempt to defeat Shohei Ohtani.

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Me + Kevin Brown at The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore on November 14. Registration (free) link here www.theivybookshop.com/event/jane-l...

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Me + Kevin Brown at The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore on November 14. Registration (free) link here www.theivybookshop.com/event/jane-l...

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JaneLeavy Ballgirl @ballgirl.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Hey, folks check this out in the NYT this morning. And Happy Works Series. Cherish This World Series. It’s the Last One Entirely in Human Hands. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

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Opinion | Cherish This World Series. It’s the Last One Entirely in Human Hands.

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Baseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Classic 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle Baseball Card #MLB #Yankees #Legend

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John Thorn @johnthorn.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Tom Thress writes, re: Ohtani. I was curious how many games Retrosheet has in which a pitcher struck out 10 and hit more homers than he allowed hits: on 6/6/1921, Bill Gatewood fanned 10 and hit a homer (first no-hitter in Negro National League). retrosheet.org/NegroLeagues...

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Retrosheet Boxscore: Detroit Stars (DT1) 4 Cincinnati Cubans (CNN) 0

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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Dave Roberts to the Dodger Stadium crowd: "They said the Dodgers are ruining baseball. Let's get four more wins and really ruin baseball."

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

If Shohei Ohtani can hit three home runs while pitching six shutout innings, you can spend a couple of hours marching for democracy.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Dodger organist Dieter Ruehle plays “Jesus Christ Superstar” as Shohei Ohtani leaves the mound after one of the greatest single game performances in MLB history.

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