Jane Leavy

Writer

1951-12-26

Quotes by Jane Leavy

• Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters.

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• News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

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• Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.

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• Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.

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• By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

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• 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, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded.

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