Official Historian, Major League Baseball. Since 2011, I have posted a story a week at ourgame.mlblogs.com. Views are my own, not those of MLB.
John Thorn
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“In a world that increasingly lacks artists — and politicians — who burn through the screen, and with younger generations less interested in offscreen lust,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes, Marilyn Monroe “remains as fulgent and seductive as ever.”
I have been watching the Knicks since the days of Carl Braun, Harry Gallatin, Ray Felix, and Dick McGuire--and then Willie Naulls, Kenny Sears, and Richie Guerin. I have never seen anything like last night's game.
John Thorn
The New York Times
Today in 1944: Joe Nuxhall‚ only 15 years‚ 10 months old‚ pitches two-thirds of an inning in the Cincinnati Reds’ 18-0 loss to St. Louis. Now we have a younger MLBer: Roy Campanella, with the Washington (DC) Elite Giants on June 22, 1937, against the Pittsburgh Crawfords.
After writing about "Casey at the Bat" for all these years, the challenge was to find a new angle. ourgame.mlblogs.com/americas-nat...
The Shot Heard 'Round the World--is it still the greatest game ever played? ourgame.mlblogs.com/americas-nat...
Despite ample assertions on the web and in books, Nate Berkenstock, hero of the final game of the 1871 season--pulled from the stands to play right field after not having been active since 1867--was not Jewish.
