Squeeze Play - by Jane Leavy (Paperback)

From the Back Cover

Inspired by the author's career as a sportswriter for the Washington Post, Squeeze Play tells the story of female reporter A. B. Berkowitz, who is assigned to cover the men of the Washington Senators -- the worst team in major league baseball. Life in the locker room shows her not just the players'...um...assets but also their all-too-human frailties. Love for the game and love for the newspaper business are the stars in this hilarious and heartbreaking novel that "will have you singing a rousing chorus of 'Take Me Out to the Locker Room'"(People).

Review Quotes

"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 Brosnin, this tale. . . will delight." - Publishers 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
"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
"There hasn't been a good baseball novel since Mark Harris's series of books about southpaw Henry Wiggins. Until this one...Squeeze Play will have you singing a rousing chorus of 'Take Me Out to the Locker Room.'" - People
"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." - Allen Barra, Entertainment Weekly