John Thorn
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John Thorn is the Official Historian for Major League Baseball. His views are his own.
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Having published yesterday a story about pioneer William Cauldwell, I wondered: what was the game's FIRST play-by-play? Here, transcribed from his Sunday Mercury of July 25, 1858. SABR @mlb @retrosheet Tom Thress Tangotiger 🍁 Mike Teevan (((Cory Schwartz))) ourgame.mlblogs.com/baseballs-firs…
I just whipped this up, reprinting an interview with catcher Chet "Pinch" Thomas in the November 1920 issue of Baseball Magazine. Thanks to Andrew Aronstein for sharing the Thompson photos of Ruth. ourgame.mlblogs.com/babe-ruth-the-…
Casey Stengel's notes for his National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ induction speech, 1966. “There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.” “I had many years that I was not so successful as a ball player, as it is a game of skill.”
Forty years ago, in 1984, prompted by "The Hidden Game of Baseball," The New York Times starts publishing a weekly box with a new statistic: On-base plus slugging percentage (OPS), which the NYT at first called "Power Factor." Tangotiger 🍁
Dave Kindy has written a fine story for NationalGeographic about Babe Ruth's "called shot" and the recent auction of his photo-matched jersey (for $24 million). I am in it a bit, and so is my eldest son, no longer a kid. Jed Heritage Auctions Mike Teevan nationalgeographic.com/history/articl…