Date & Time
10:00am EDT - 11:30pm EDT
Price
About This Event
Bestselling author Jane Leavy of Make Me Commissioner! in conversation with bestselling author, baseball maven and consigliere Daniel Okrent.
Preorder a signed copy of Jane's book, Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix It courtesy of East End Books in Provincetown. Your order will be available for pick up at the event.
EVENT DETAILS:
📌 Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It with Jane Leavy and Dan Okrent
📌 Tue, Aug 4 from 10:00-11:30am* at Payomet Performing Arts Center
📌 FREE *Complimentary coffee and pastries will be served so you're welcome to join us a few minutes early for a snack
Jane Leavy is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Big Fella, Babe Ruth and The World He Created, The Last Boy, Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, and the comic novel Squeeze Play, which Entertainment Weekly called “the best novel ever written about baseball." Formerly a staff writer for The Washington Post, her work has been widely anthologized most recently in the collection Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft. If she doesn’t get Manfred’s job, she’s going to umpire school.
Dan Okrent is the author of seven books, most recently Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn’t Easy (Yale University Press, 2026). His earlier works include Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (winner of the American Historical Association’s prize for the year’s best book of American history); The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of European Immigrants Out of America (winner of the National Jewish Book Award for history); and Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in History. He is also the author of the 1985 baseball classic, Nine Innings.
From 2003-2005, Okrent was the first public editor of the New York Times. He previously spent 13 years at Time Inc., where he was successively editor of Life magazine; corporate editor of new media; and corporate editor-at-large. Earlier in his career, he worked extensively in book and magazine publishing in various editorial and executive positions. He has held fellowships at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (where he was, in addition, the Edward R. Murrow Visiting Lecturer in 2009-2010.)
This TENT Talks series is being presented to the community free of change, and registration is not required to attend– however we'd appreciate you let us know you're coming by filling out this form.
About This Event
Bestselling author Jane Leavy of Make Me Commissioner! in conversation with bestselling author, baseball maven and consigliere Daniel Okrent.
Preorder a signed copy of Jane's book, Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix It courtesy of East End Books in Provincetown. Your order will be available for pick up at the event.
EVENT DETAILS:
📌 Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It with Jane Leavy and Dan Okrent
📌 Tue, Aug 4 from 10:00-11:30am* at Payomet Performing Arts Center
📌 FREE *Complimentary coffee and pastries will be served so you're welcome to join us a few minutes early for a snack
Jane Leavy is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Big Fella, Babe Ruth and The World He Created, The Last Boy, Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, and the comic novel Squeeze Play, which Entertainment Weekly called “the best novel ever written about baseball." Formerly a staff writer for The Washington Post, her work has been widely anthologized most recently in the collection Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft. If she doesn’t get Manfred’s job, she’s going to umpire school.
Dan Okrent is the author of seven books, most recently Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn’t Easy (Yale University Press, 2026). His earlier works include Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (winner of the American Historical Association’s prize for the year’s best book of American history); The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of European Immigrants Out of America (winner of the National Jewish Book Award for history); and Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in History. He is also the author of the 1985 baseball classic, Nine Innings.
From 2003-2005, Okrent was the first public editor of the New York Times. He previously spent 13 years at Time Inc., where he was successively editor of Life magazine; corporate editor of new media; and corporate editor-at-large. Earlier in his career, he worked extensively in book and magazine publishing in various editorial and executive positions. He has held fellowships at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (where he was, in addition, the Edward R. Murrow Visiting Lecturer in 2009-2010.)
This TENT Talks series is being presented to the community free of change, and registration is not required to attend– however we'd appreciate you let us know you're coming by filling out this form.
Date & Time
10:00am EDT - 11:30pm EDT