Authors abound at NYC SABR meeting

March 1, 2011 · 1 comment

John Thorn, who today was named as Major League Baseball’s official historian, will be one of several authors presenting at the March 5 meeting of SABR’s Casey Stengel Chapter.

The day-long event — which is open to the public — will be held at the Mid-Manhattan Branch of the NY Public Library (Fifth Avenue and East. 40th Street, sixth floor), from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Thorn, who has just released his latest title, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, was recently awarded SABR’s highest honor, the Bob Davids Award, named for SABR’s founder. Thorn was the senior creative consultant for the Ken Burns documentary Baseball and in 2004 he discovered documentation that traced the origins of baseball in America to 1791 in Pittsfield, Mass.

Other writers scheduled to appear at the March 5 event include

The program also features a trivia contest and raffle prizes.

Admission is $25, which can be paid in advance or at the door. For information, e-mail David H. Lippman at  dhlippman@juno.com.

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1 Jay March 1, 2011 at 9:08 pm

What great timing, with Thorn being named Official Historian and his book.

Rock star status!

This chapter has some good folk. Wish I could make it!

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