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At the Jackie Robinson Training Complex in Vero Beach, which used to be Dodgertown, Marquis showed me around the most visible and successful part of Rob Manfred's program to rebuild baseball in the inner city.

The latest edition of the Sports Writers Inc. podcast is now live, featuring the transcendent Jane Leavy (@ballgirl.bsky.social)! Her new book "Make Me Commissioner" is out now! Great talk! Do it up! Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2PNt...

At Truist Park I met third base coach and drill sergeant Ron Washington, MLB's minister of particulars, who helped make Austin Riley into a third baseman.

This is a positive step towards the Jane Leavy Era. 😊 www.mlb.com/news/abs-cha...

Yikes! and thank you www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

"Make Me Commissioner" road trip: let's rewind to opening day 2023. At PNC Park, I met Janet Marie Smith for the Pirates home opener to see MLB’s new rules in action and her enhancements. Pirates fans weren’t depressed (yet).

Behind the scenes in the broadcast booth with Yankees orators Dave Sims and Suzyn Waldman, talking Joe Torre and the best line in "Make Me Commissioner, I Know What's Wrong With Baseball and How To Fix It" #makemecommissioner #mlb #yankees #joetorre

The 7th annual SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference begins tonight on Zoom! All baseball fans are welcome. Sign up now to hear from Jane Leavy (@ballgirl.bsky.social), Harriet Kimbro-Hamilton, ESPN’s Nicole Briscoe, and more. sabr.org/women-in-bas...

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

Does this count as a recommendation letter? #bookstagram #newbook #makemecommissione #mlb #jobapplication #bookreviews #booklist

At the USA National #Baseball Training Complex in Cary, NC, 16 of the top prep teams in the country had been invited to the USA Baseball National Invitational, which made it the place to be for a big league scout. The boys from Brother Rice High School in Chicago arrived with purpose.

Yes, it's one of those awful rituals of aging.

You're the second I've spoken to today in the midst of that complicated chore. Hope you find something to cherish amid the castoffs. j

wish i had one to send you!

Francisco Lindor's wife Katia played the national anthem on the violin ahead of tonight's Mets game!

I love baseball. I love movies about baseball. These are my favorites. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/1...

Ohhhh I need this

Pleading my case for a new role.... #MAKEMECOMMISSIONER in stores now. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jane-... #mlb #baseball

Pleading my case for a new role.... #MAKEMECOMMISSIONER in stores now. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jane-... #mlb #baseball

My epic journey through the game that baseball has become took me to the 2023 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston, where there wasn't much baseball I didn't understand a word of either of the two student baseball presentations in the Research Competition

My first act as #MLB commissioner — 10 and under get in free #baseball #booksky janeleavy.com/commissioner/

September 28 at 3PM - Thrilled to be with Mike Rizzo (and maybe another special guest). Save the date, stay tuned and join us. 5015 Conn Ave, DC. Let me know if I'll see you there. politics-prose.com/jane-leavy-9...

Relentless pursuit of competitive edges on and off the field have killed the essential charms of #baseball. At Driveline in Kent, WA I visited the epicenter of the analytic revolution. The no-bullshit training floor doesn't look that different from other gyms.

Domain knowledge vs. analytics. What really helps players become Hall-of-Fame great? janeleavy.com/commissioner/ #mlb #baseball #moneyball #halloffame

The 2003 Seattle Mariners are the only AL team in the last 121 seasons to use only 5 different starting pitchers.

You can't say enough about Dusty.

Empiricism in modern #baseball? Never heard of her (anymore, unfortunately). Dusty's experience is given space it deserves in MAKE ME COMMISSIONER — after all, "who wouldn't want to read a book with an entire chapter devoted to Dusty Baker?" — @annkillion.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com #booksky #mlb

My friend Jane Leavy aka @ballgirl.bsky.social --author of the definitive, blockbuster biographies on Koufax, Mantle, and Ruth--has a new book out today on how to fix the modern game. It's full of great ideas, and not finger wagging at all. It's a really fun read! bookshop.org/p/books/make...

If you're joining me on the behind-the-scenes road trip through the far corners of the baseball world in my new book "Make Me Commissioner," know that I set out to uncover how the game broke, and to find the people and the ideas that just might bring it back.

Unless you want to be infamous on X for stealing a ball from a kid, what is the point of bringing your mitt to a baseball game anymore? janeleavy.com/commissioner/

With Scott Simon today on Open Book for pub day. What better way is there to celebrate? substack.com/inbox/post/1...

My grandmother Celia Zelda Fellenbaum lived one long, loud foul ball from home plate at Yankee Stadium. The Sammy Esposito model glove she bought for me off the left hand of a mannequin standing in the window of Saks Fifth Avenue.

Who is the MLB scheduler that made today’s Rays/Dodgers game in an open air minor league stadium in Tampa, FL a day game? I just want to talk

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This! Coming September 9

September 9!

Such an honor to be in such company. And just a little over a month before publication of "Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong With Baseball and How To Fix It." See you there.

In case you're interested, when I'm commissioner any manager who removes a pitcher after seven no-hit or perfect innings loses his challenges for the next five games. If it's a shut out, 9-0 as it was today in New York, I'll make it ten games.

sent in the last word changes at 2 am, the acknowledgments this afternoon, and received this from Cape Cod where Miss Sue Horton, gm, and Coach Kelly Nicholson, who preside over the Orleans Firebirds, kicked off their season and mine. They are the best of baseball.

Coming September 9!

The Learning Curve: NYT Bestseller Jane Leavy on Babe Ruth, Baseball, & 1920s Celebrity Me and baseball. The Learning Curve podcast from pioneer.org today!

The last words added to my new book, "Make Me Commissioner, From Roger Angell on Baseball, the Game of the Summer longreads.com/2014/08/05/r...

I think my cat is one of the prettiest creatures alive today. I am aware I almost certainly think this because she is MY cat and I love her, and your mileage may vary. BUT.

On our walk earlier a woman pulled her car over on a fairly narrow/busy street to ask if she could get out and pet her because she was having a rough day. I do not know who enjoyed the meeting more. This isn’t from then but whatever.

I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org