By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940,… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
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… — Jane Leavy Copy Share
By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete. — Jane Leavy Copy Share
The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite. — Jane Leavy Copy Share
For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated. — Jane Leavy Copy Share
The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized… — Jane Leavy Copy Share
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… — Jane Leavy Copy Share
For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But,… — Jane Leavy Copy Share
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… — Jane Leavy Copy Share
There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when. — Jane Leavy Copy Share
Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the… — Jane Leavy Copy Share
Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal… — Jane Leavy Copy Share
Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD. — Jane Leavy Copy Share
On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and… — Jane Leavy Copy Share
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate. — Jane Leavy Copy Share
