Jane Leavy with Kevin Brown: MAKE ME COMMISSIONER

Come on out to the Ivy Bookshop for an evening with New York Times bestselling biographer and lifelong baseball devotee Jane Leavy, and Orioles broadcaster Kevin Brown! You’ll have the chance to hear from both speakers about Leavy’s new book Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It, have your book signed, and enjoy some refreshments.

Make Me Commissioner takes readers on an epic journey through the game that baseball has become– a heartfelt manifesto that’s perfect for lovers of the sport.

This event is presented in partnership with the Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research.

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Jane Leavy is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created,The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, and the comic novel Squeeze Play, which Entertainment Weekly called“the best novel ever written about baseball.” She was a staff writer at The Washington Post from 1979 to 1988, first in the Sports section, then writing for the Style section. She covered baseball, tennis, and the Olympics. She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, and is anthologized in The Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns and Driven to Write.

Kevin Noble Brown is an American journalist and broadcaster for the Baltimore Orioles. He is also a play-by-play commentator for several college sports with ESPN.