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How Baseball’s Official Historian Dug Up the Game’s Unknown Origins

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John Thorn is perhaps the most knowledgeable historian of our national pastime. Thorn was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1947. He grew up rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers, largely because of Jackie Robinson. Thorn himself has written, edited or anthologized several dozen books.

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How Baseball’s Official Historian Dug Up the Game’s Unknown Origins

A lifelong passion for the national pastime led John Thorn to redefine the sport's relationship with statistics and reveal the truth behind its earliest days

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