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The Learning Curve: NYT Bestseller Jane Leavy on Reforming Major League Baseball

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News, Politics

4.4 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts U-Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng and Pioneer Senior Fellow Charlie Chieppo interview award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jane Leavy. Ms. Leavy discusses her lifelong love of baseball, and her forthcoming book, Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It, which comes out in September. She reflects on the magic of the […]

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0:00.0

Take me out to the ball game.

0:07.0

Take me out to the crown.

0:14.0

Find me some peanuts in cracker jazz.

0:22.6

I don't care. I don't care. You might never go back.

0:26.6

Hello, everybody.

0:27.6

Hope you're doing well.

0:28.6

I just want to welcome you to a new episode of the Learning Curve podcast.

0:33.6

I'm one of your co-hosts this week, Albert Chang.

0:36.6

And this week, joining me is Charlie Chippio. Charlie, what's up? Well, I'm well. Albert, good to see you. I'm very excited to talk to Jane again. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we've got to bring you back for all things baseball. And looking forward to another episode on America's pastime, really.

0:55.4

Absolutely, absolutely.

0:58.3

Speaking of baseball, I know we've got to start with some news. And in light of our topic for today, I'm just going to forego any education news and give a shout

1:05.0

out to the Taiwanese Little League team who won the Little League World Series this past week in Williamsport.

1:14.6

They beat the team from Nevada, was represented, I guess, the U.S. side of this.

1:19.1

Seven to zero.

1:19.9

It wasn't too close.

1:20.7

It was the kind of dominating performance by the Taiwanese team.

1:23.6

And, I mean, I'm glowing because, I mean, I don't know if I've ever mentioned to you. I'm actually ethnically Taiwanese.

1:29.3

So I mean, anything that happens, you know, cool with Taiwan, there's a lot of pride that shows up.

1:36.3

So anyway, I was really thrilled to see that.

1:38.3

I mean, look, my Giants haven't been giving me anything to cheer about.

1:41.3

It's nice to see the Taiwanese team give me something to cheer about. 18th title first since 1996, so great to see. Wow, 18 titles. That's a dynasty. That's incredible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, look, we can talk a lot more baseball stories. I mean, look, you're an Yagin's fan. So let's not. No, well, actually, I was going to talk about Chenming Wong.

2:03.5

Ah, yes.

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