It has been, seemingly, a lifetime of benign negligence from the Lords of Baseball that drove author Jane Leavy – biographer of Hall of Famers Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth – to write a how-to book of sorts, aimed at correcting some of what has ailed the national pastime over the years.

Then again, there seemed a lack of potential material currently out there involving more recent generations of baseball stars.

“The access that you have with dead guys, it turns out, is a lot better than you have in a modern locker room,” she quipped in a Zoom conversation this week, noting that the process of writing her last book, “The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created,” took eight years before it was published in 2018.

“There are great players in Major League Baseball, many of

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