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> [Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/babe-ruth-didn-t-become-her-father-until-18-months-after-he-married/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

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> [At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower,' in which he describes attending the Yankees' 154th game in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/at-a-book-festival-in-fort-lauderdale-i-met-david-eisenhower-ike-s/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

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## More by Jane Leavy

> [Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/cape-cod-baseball-dates-back-to-the-time-of-the-civil-war-a-poster-at/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

> [By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/by-the-time-i-joined-the-washington-post-sports-staff-in-1979-red-s/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

> [The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/the-modern-era-of-cape-cod-baseball-dawned-in-1963-when-the-league/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

> [For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/for-mantle-the-yankees-locker-room-was-a-sanctuary-a-safe-haven-where/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

> [The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/the-world-is-not-kind-to-whistleblowers-a-term-of-art-with-particular/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 the baseball…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/babe-ruth-didn-t-become-her-father-until-18-months-after-he-married/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

> [For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/for-most-of-my-adult-life-i-dreaded-the-day-i-woke-up-and-saw-my/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 Moore, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/in-naples-fla-i-met-a-self-made-man-a-multimillionaire-whose-round/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

> [There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/there-is-no-free-speech-in-football-information-is-parsed-by/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

> [Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/some-scholars-attribute-the-decline-in-nicknaming-to-the-evolutionary/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

> [Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/led-by-a-new-generation-of-edgy-sportswriters-like-lipsyte-we-found/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

> [Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/trauma-is-not-the-sole-province-of-victims-if-that-were-true-soldiers/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

> [When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/when-my-father-realized-he-was-going-blind-he-took-up-golf/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

> [On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/on-winter-sundays-when-i-was-a-child-we-waited-for-my-father-to/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 debate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-leavy/news-writing-and-sports-writing-have-become-synonymous-and-it-started/)

[Jane Leavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-leavy/)

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