Shameless self-promotion: What’s on Second

March 7, 2011 · 2 comments

It’s Monday and that means I’ll be making my weekly appearance on the What’s On Second Internet radio program on Blogtalkradio.com. The show begins at 9 p.m. EST, and I’m usually on about 9:40.

Tonight’s guest will be John Thorn, the newly-appointed official historian of Major League Baseball. Thorn, a prolific writer, has just released Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, so I’ll be discussing some books about the early history of the game.

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1 Baseballindc March 10, 2011 at 7:43 pm

Ron – really enjoyed you on What’s on Second. I’ll be VERY interested to see what type of work Thorn generates for the Commissioner’s office as the official historian. As far as I know nothing Holtzman did was ever made public, which is a real shame. A couple books I’ve read in the past couple of months include DeFord’s superb The Old Ball Game and David Anderson’s much underappreciated More Than Merkle on the 1908 season.

2 Anonymous March 10, 2011 at 7:55 pm

Thanks, kindly. I’ll be doing my own interview with Thorn sometime soon and ask him about the responsibilities of his new office.

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