The game of baseball — the team game of baseball — can still feel within reach on a hazy summer night on Cape Cod in a stadium so low-key that its pristine sheen is occasionally broken by kids ...
UNIDENTIFIED SPORTSCASTER #1: Sandy into his windup. Here's the pitch. Swing on and miss. The perfect game. MARTÍNEZ: There are biographies about Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth, and a novel ...
On Saturday night, Oct. 25, my husband managed to pry me away from the second game of the World Series to see a movie at a local funplex. In each of the cavernous bars, there was a massive square of ...
I recently finished this new book from Jane Leavy—previous biographer of the likes of Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax, & Babe Ruth. As baseball nonfiction tomes go, I found it—okay. A LOT of snark, but if ...
It has been, seemingly, a lifetime of benign negligence from the Lords of Baseball that drove author Jane Leavy – biographer of Hall of Famers Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth – to write a ...
Francesca Wade’s latest book “can be read as a biographical detective story that fills in once-taboo blanks,” said Diane Cole in the Financial Times. Though Wade’s subject, Gertrude Stein, has not ...