Jane Leavy

The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.

— Jane Leavy

Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.

— Jane Leavy

When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.

— Jane Leavy

There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom…

— Jane Leavy

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great,…

— Jane Leavy

On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and…

— Jane Leavy

Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.

— Jane Leavy

Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision,…

— Jane Leavy

There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly,…

— Jane Leavy

By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

— Jane Leavy

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion…

— Jane Leavy

In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having…

— Jane Leavy

By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the…

— Jane Leavy

At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory:…

— Jane Leavy

In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as…

— Jane Leavy

Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day -…

— Jane Leavy

Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts…

— Jane Leavy

In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry…

— Jane Leavy

The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive…

— Jane Leavy

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman…

— Jane Leavy

Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of…

— Jane Leavy

In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York…

— Jane Leavy

For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never…

— Jane Leavy

Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was…

— Jane Leavy

Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was…

— Jane Leavy

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of…

— Jane Leavy

For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.

— Jane Leavy

He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many…

— Jane Leavy

Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis - Danny's Hideaway, the Latin Quarter, the '21' Club, the Stork Club, El Morocco, Toots…

— Jane Leavy