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Batter Up! With Author Jane Leavy at the Mandell JCC; October 20, 2013

Enjoy a ballpark dinner, author talk and book signing at Batter Up! With Author Jane Leavy on Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. at the Mandell JCC, Zachs Campus, 335 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT. This event, sponsored by Fidelity Investments and his friends and family, is in memory of Howard J. Siegal. All proceeds will benefit youth sports programs at the Mandell JCC.

 

Jane Leavy is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “The Last Boy,” “Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy,” and the comic novel “Squeeze Play,” which Entertainment Weekly called “the best novel ever written about baseball.” From 1978 to 1988, she was a staff writer at The Washington Post, where she covered baseball, tennis, and the Olympics for the sports section, and later went on to write for the style section. Before joining the The Washington Post, she was a staff writer at womenSports and Self magazines. She has written for many publications, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, The Village Voice, and The New York Daily News. Leavy attended Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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Tickets for Batter Up! With Author Jane Leavy are on sale at the Mandell JCC for $20 per person, and include the dinner, talk, and book signing. Tickets must be purchased by October 13, 2013 through the Box Office at 860-231-6316. For more information on the 21st Annual Jewish Book Festival, Jill Ziplow, 860-231-6339, jziplow@mandelljcc.org or visit www.mandelljcc.org. This event is made possible by Fidelity Investments and the friends and family of Howard J. Siegal.

 

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The Mandell Jewish Community Center is open to everyone and supported by funds raised by the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, a recipient of funding from the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford, and a member of the JCC Association of North America. For updates, follow the Mandell JCC on Facebook and Twitter. All dates and programs subject to change.
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