Make Me Commissioner

“No one makes me laugh and think and nod my head yes more than Jane Leavy when she is writing about baseball, the sport we both love. Fat chance they'll ever let her become commissioner, but her combination of joy, humor, intelligence, deep historical knowledge, and common sense about how to save the game is precisely what it needs.”—David Maraniss, author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero

“Jane Leavy loves baseball. I love Leavy writing about baseball. On the heels of her definitive bios of all-time greats—Koufax, Mantle, and Ruth—Leavy is back to remind us why baseball is the best game and lovingly sculpts solutions to fix the national pastime. Make Me Commissioner completes Leavy's Rushmore Four on the top shelf of my baseball book collection.”—Dan Shaughnessy, author of The Curse of the Bambino and Francona

“Baseball’s broken, but don’t worry—Jane Leavy’s got the duct tape, WD-40, and a few wild ideas to fix it. A hysterical—yet practical!—take on saving America’s pastime before it turns into America’s nap time. Make her commissioner!”—Gish Jen, author of The Resisters and Bad Bad Girl

“As a big-league storyteller, Jane Leavy has all the tools: wise-ass sense of humor, eye for detail, knack for dialogue, a major address book of large personalities—and she knows what she’s talking about. The story she makes so lively, about what has gone wrong with what used to be our national pastime, just may be a story about our nation, too.”—Robert Pinsky, three-time United States Poet Laureate

“This book is a dream come true—a road trip through the world of baseball with one of the game’s most convivial commentators and finest writers. But please don’t make Jane Leavy commissioner; let her keep writing. Baseball needs her. And baseball fans need to read this book—to quarrel over it, to laugh with it, and to let it remind us why we will always love the game.” —Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life and Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig