Jane Leavy is an award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post. She is the author of Sandy Koufax and the comic novel Squeeze Play, called “the best novel ever written about baseball” by Entertainment Weekly. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Squeeze Play
- ISBN-13: 9780786132188
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Publication date: 11/09/2004
- Edition description: Unabridged
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Reporter A. B. Berkowitz finds herself “alone with a locker room full of naked men” as she tries to write about the game of baseball amidst players who only want to gross her out, in this funny, raunchy, authentic tale by a former Washington Post sportswriter.
Rave Reviews for SQUEEZE PLAY. . .
"Jane Leavy's Squeeze Play is the best novel ever written about baseball … the funniest, raunchiest, and most compassionate baseball novel I've ever read….Sure to offend some people who cried during Field of Dreams - and that's good enough for me." -Entertainment Weekly
"Jane Leavy's terrific Squeeze Play will have you reeling with laughter." -Larry King
"Squeeze Play does for baseball what Semi-Tough did for football." -Washington Post Book World
"Raunchy…authentic…this tale by a former sportswriter for the Washington Post will delight readers willing to accept a healthy dose of vulgarity with their humor, especially those who know and love the rhythms and complexities of the national pastime." -Publishers Weekly
"There is a lot of foul locker-room language and bawdiness, which may trouble some readers, but this is a funny, tender, true-to-life story of baseball, journalism, and war between the sexes." -Library Journal
"There hasn't been a good baseball novel since Mark Harris's series of books about southpaw Henry Wiggin. Until this one... Squeeze Play will have you singing a rousing chorus of 'Take Me Out to the Locker Room.'" -People
"Leavy's hilarious debut is a strong early candidate for MVP of the…sports-novel season….As raunchy as stories by Dan Jenkins and Peter Gent, as authentic as exposes by Jim Bouton and Jim Brosnan, this tale … will delight." -Publishers Weekly
"Does baseball mythology proud... The overall effect is that of a surreal parody, with a baseball team and newsroom that Mel Brooks might have assembled, where nobody and no activity is life-size, and where sex is a metaphor for baseball: You gotta play hurt." -New York Times Book Review
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